From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751313AbVH2VYh (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:24:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751306AbVH2VYh (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:24:37 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.205]:45953 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751322AbVH2VYR (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:24:17 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=t+qrdokrwSbeM5QOwFh0hX9JBTZHKPeWmC1pYHhzX9ufTq4jAWwWJ/hWyt6AZfoa2Dx1gnDb7DM3OHoKZPHQp4r9QBUtK3e9KrUyOrm7VoPBR83hk1KDDb9DSCeMN5KiIqFyOp8RI++Md9nVXe5w+uKng6WNk7WJEY8Jb2w8J2Q= From: Jesper Juhl To: Andrew Morton Subject: [PATCH 3/3] remove verify_area() - remove fs/umsdos/notes as it only contain a verify_area related note Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:25:20 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: "linux-kernel" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508292325.20368.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The file `fs/umsdos/notes' contains only a small note about a possible bug involving verify_area(). Since umsdos is no longer in the kernel and verify_area() is also gone, it seems to make sense that this file goes the way of the Dodo. After applying this patch the `fs/umsdos/' directory will be empty and can be removed entirely. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl --- fs/umsdos/notes | 17 ----------------- 1 files changed, 17 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.13-orig/fs/umsdos/notes 2005-08-29 01:41:01.000000000 +0200 +++ /dev/null 2005-08-29 03:16:53.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ -This file contain idea and things I don't want to forget - -Possible bug in fs/read_write.c -Function sys_readdir() - - There is a call the verify_area that does not take in account - the count parameter. I guess it should read - - error = verify_area(VERIFY_WRITE, dirent, count*sizeof (*dirent)); - - instead of - - error = verify_area(VERIFY_WRITE, dirent, sizeof (*dirent)); - - Of course, now , count is always 1 - -