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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:13:18 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/4] lib: introduce copy_struct_from_user() helper
To:     Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 11:04 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> IMO it's better to lift reading the first word out of the loop, like this:
>   ...
> Do you see any problems with that variant?

That looks fine to me too.

It's a bit harder for humans to read because of how it reads the word
from user space one iteration early, but from a code generation
standpoint it probably is better.

So slightly subtler source code, and imho harder to read, but it looks
correct to me.

             Linus