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kprobes: silence DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS=y warning
authorStephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:50:29 +0000 (10:50 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 4 Oct 2011 07:38:42 +0000 (18:38 +1100)
commit88046babbf817a7c77e24b58ce643ed7c67c2435
tree2dc6e517a7a4873b8c2b784f624354a1bd71b1ca
parent1f8c5b51f480c7a574e08b3104955cd59762f488
kprobes: silence DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS=y warning

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 <>
kernel/kprobes.c