Re: [PATCH] cleanup on selection.c

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Fri Aug 25 2000 - 09:06:41 EST


Em Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:43:40AM -0400, Matthew Wilcox escreveu:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 10:05:19AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > --- linux-2.4.0-test7/drivers/char/selection.c Tue Aug 31 15:30:48 1999
> > +++ linux-2.4.0-test7.acme/drivers/char/selection.c Fri Aug 25 09:40:50 2000
> > @@ -96,11 +96,8 @@
> > /* set inwordLut contents. Invoked by ioctl(). */
> > int sel_loadlut(const unsigned long arg)
> > {
> > - int err = -EFAULT;
> > -
> > - if (!copy_from_user(inwordLut, (u32 *)(arg+4), 32))
> > - err = 0;
> > - return err;
> > + copy_from_user_ret(inwordLut, (u32 *)(arg+4), 32, -EFAULT);
> > + return 0;
> > }
> >
> > /* does screen address p correspond to character at LH/RH edge of screen? */
>
> this is wrong.
>
> return copy_from_user_ret(inwordLut, (u32 *)(arg+4), 32, -EFAULT);
>
> is what you mean.

nope, look at copy_from_user_ret in include/asm/uaccess.h

#define copy_from_user_ret(to,from,n,retval) ({ if (copy_from_user(to,from,n)) return retval; })

- Arnaldo
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