Re: [PATCH] watchdog: fix GETTIMEOUT ioctl in booke_wdt

From: Timur Tabi
Date: Fri Jan 27 2012 - 16:23:02 EST


Timur Tabi wrote:
> Dmitry Artamonow wrote:
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_FSL_BOOKE
>> + return put_user(period_to_sec(booke_wdt_period), p);
>> +#else
>
> period_to_sec() returns an unsigned long long, which means that the driver
> will write 8 bytes instead of 4 to user space.

Ok, I take that back. put_user() uses the size of the pointer, which
makes more sense anyway.


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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale

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