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Re: [PATCH] x86/boot: Rename overlapping memcpy() to memmove()

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* Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
> @@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
> +/*
> + * This provides an optimized implementation of memcpy, and a simplified
> + * implementation of memset and memmove, to avoid problems with the
> + * built-in implementations when running in the restricted decompression
> + * stub environment.
> + */

Does 'built in' here mean the compiler's implementation?

We cannot call kernel built-in functions yet, so we have to duplicate everything 
we might need, right?

Thanks,

	Ingo

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[PATCH] x86/boot: Rename overlapping memcpy() to memmove() Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-04-23 00:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] x86/boot: Rename overlapping memcpy() to memmove() Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-04-23 13:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] x86/boot: Rename overlapping memcpy() to memmove() Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-04-23 21:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] x86/boot: Rename overlapping memcpy() to memmove() Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-04-25 09:40 +0200

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