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Date:   Wed, 13 Jan 2021 17:19:33 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 04:06:09PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Maybe the other difference in approach between Andy and me is whether to
> go for a solution that covers all the corner cases, or just make an incremental
> improvement that allows for recover in some useful subset of remaining fatal
> cases, but still dies in other cases.

Does that mean more core code surgery?

> I'm happy to replace error messages with ones that are more descriptive and
> helpful to humans.

Yap, that: "Multiple copyin" with something more understandable to users...

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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