Re: Serious bug in uaccess.h

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Fabrice Bellard wrote:

> I mean the code in arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S. It is possible to modify
> __copy_user so that it has exactly the same calling convention of a C
> function. Then, no asm is necessary in uaccess.h. It costs us a
> supplementary jump.

 You mean the supplementary return value in a2?  Hmm, it is always set to
zero!  Also "addu $1, %2, %3" makes no sense.

 Ralf, the code is weird.  The header implies you are the author.  Could
you please elaborate what you meant in copy_*_user()? 

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