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From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	elver@google.com,  dvyukov@google.com,
	kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, andy@kernel.org,
	 ndesaulniers@google.com, nathan@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] string: use __builtin_memcpy() in strlcpy/strlcat
Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 18:07:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG_fn=VgkA0OdjqJg1FCBX5FcXtm96h9PTTTwAt3qWa0n0oNyw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG_fn=XmSbaMQQAwCWVmZ8UYDrsmeQWiqi92Vi4CQqy4GK+0ug@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 9:48 AM Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> wrote:
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>
>
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 3:48 PM Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> wrote:
>>

>> > I *think* this isn't a problem for CONFIG_FORTIFY, since these will be
>> > replaced and checked separately -- but it still seems strange that you
>> > need to explicitly use __builtin_memcpy.
>>
>
> Or did you mean we'd better use __underlying_memcpy() here instead? I am a bit puzzled.

Kees told me offline that the patch in question is fine.
@Andrew, would it be possible to queue it for 6.4?

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-10 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-24 11:23 Alexander Potapenko
2023-04-24 12:39 ` Marco Elver
2023-04-24 16:24 ` Kees Cook
2023-04-28 13:48   ` Alexander Potapenko
2023-05-10  7:48     ` Alexander Potapenko
2023-05-10 16:07       ` Alexander Potapenko [this message]
2023-05-10 16:07     ` Kees Cook

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