[PATCH 3/6] [v2] hexagon: use generic strncpy/strnlen from_user

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 8:16 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 12:18:00PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> >
> > Most per-architecture versions of these functions are broken in some form,
> > and they are almost certainly slower than the generic code as well.
> >
> > Remove the ones for hexagon and instead use the generic version.
> > This custom version reads the data twice for strncpy() by doing an extra
> > strnlen(), and it apparently lacks a check for user_addr_max().
>
> I'd be tempted to just remove the first paragraph and reword the second
> as:
>
> Remove the hexagon implementation of strncpy/strnlen and instead use the
> generic versions.  The hexago version of strncpy reads the data twice by
> doing an extra strnlen(), and it apparently lacks a check for
> user_addr_max().

Changed to your version now, thanks!

        Arnd