On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:35:09PM +0100, 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 :) . > > Oh gosh, you actually converted the whole IRIX compatibility mess even, > amazing stomach you have :-) I only noticed that when I just looked at > Linus' tree - after buring a few hours into cleaning those files myself - > mine are now almost free of sparse warnings. > I hope I did a descent job and that you didn't waste too much time duplicating effort...
> The last instance of verify_area() in the MIPS code is now the definition > itself. > The plan is to wait for a few months (or a few kernel releases - whichever comes first) and then I'll send Andrew patches to remove it completely. There are still a few related nits left, like the FPU_verify_area function arch/i386/math-emu/reg_ld_str.c and the rw_verify_area function in fs/read_write.c that I want to get out of the way first (think I'll probably end up attempting to rename those s/verify_area/access_ok/ and see if people scream). -- Jesper - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
