Re: [PATCH] Keys: Deal properly with strnlen_user()

Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:

> ug.  Well it's your code ;)

Yeah...

> It should really parameterise `ret' too.
> 
> Are you sure you want to do this?  From my reading, doing it with plain old
> subroutines would work?

That complicates the error handling and potentially produces less optimal
code:-/

I think bringing it together though is definitely the right thing to do: fewer
bits to fix and all that.

Davud
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- [PATCH] Keys: Deal properly with strnlen_user()
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