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authorJulius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>2020-08-21 15:20:02 -0700
committerPatrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>2020-08-24 09:24:06 +0000
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libpayload: memmove: Don't make expectations of architecture memcpy
default_memmove() calls memcpy() when (src > dst). This is safe for the default_memcpy() implementation, but just calling memcpy() may invoke an architecture-specific implementation. Architectures are free to implement memcpy() however they want and may assume that buffers don't overlap in either direction. So while this happens to work for all current architecture implementations of memcpy(), it's safer not to rely on that and only rely on the known implementation of default_memcpy() for the forwards-overlapping case. Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org> Change-Id: I7ece4ce9e6622a36612bfade3deb62f351877789 Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/44691 Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org> Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
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