From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262846AbVCPW4h (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:56:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262843AbVCPW4g (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:56:36 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:16868 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262846AbVCPWz6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:55:58 -0500 Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:55:24 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Jesper Juhl Cc: yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp, ralf@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch][resend] convert a remaining verify_area to access_ok (was: Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-mm1] mips: more convert verify_area to access_ok) (fwd) Message-Id: <20050316145524.18787569.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jesper Juhl wrote: > > Around 2.6.11-mm1 Yoichi Yuasa found a user of verify_area that I had > missed when converting everything to access_ok. The patch below still > applies cleanly to 2.6.11-mm4. > Please apply (unless of course you already picked it up back then and > have it in a queue somewhere :) . That's tricky stuff you're playing with, so I'd prefer it came in via Ralf. However I can queue it up locally so it doesn't get forgotten. Ralf must have another two megabyte patch buffered up by now, btw?