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Enabling DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS causes the following warning:
authorStephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Wed, 3 Aug 2011 00:52:57 +0000 (10:52 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 22 Aug 2011 03:27:13 +0000 (13:27 +1000)
commit2f295349eeb7758a8bc1a489126d8d8c66a5f3d3
tree7b66d5cc4dd5f0e90df76ac8ea22dba7a28035be
parentd2503a29966c955cb49b2b566918a3a62d82c05c
Enabling DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS causes the following warning:

In file included from arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:573,
                 from kernel/kprobes.c:55:
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'write_enabled_file_bool' at
    kernel/kprobes.c:2191:
arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:65:
warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with
attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably
correct

presumably due to buf_size being signed causing GCC to fail to see that
buf_size can't become negative.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/kprobes.c