From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752347AbcEWVFu (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2016 17:05:50 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:50279 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751766AbcEWVFt (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2016 17:05:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 14:05:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20160523.140547.194027000303214592.davem@davemloft.net> To: falakreyaz@gmail.com Cc: richardcochran@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptp: use memdup_user(). From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1463746862-23815-1-git-send-email-falakreyaz@gmail.com> References: <1463746862-23815-1-git-send-email-falakreyaz@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.7 on Emacs 24.5 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Mon, 23 May 2016 14:05:48 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Muhammad Falak R Wani Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 17:51:02 +0530 > Use memdup_user to duplicate a memory region from user-space to > kernel-space, instead of open coding using kmalloc & copy_from_user. > > Signed-off-by: Muhammad Falak R Wani Applied.