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SubjectRe: [PATCH] serial167.c: take 2: bugfixes and cleanups
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please take a look and consider applying.

Consider sending this to Linus then.... ;-)

> - copy_to_user(retinfo,&tmp,sizeof(*retinfo));
> - return 0;
> + return copy_to_user(retinfo,&tmp,sizeof(*retinfo)) ? -EFAULT : 0;

Interfaces, interfaces, interfaces.....

I suspect that this is one of the most common uses for copy_to_user.

So wouldn't it make more sense to have copy_to_user (or a variant)
return "EFAULT" when it doesn't work?

That would make the code:

return fcopy_to_user(retinfo, &tmp, sizeof (*retinfo));

Looks cleaner to me than the EFAULT case.

When you are "designing" copy_to_user, I can understand the desire to
do something "useful" with the return value. If the majority of the
callers don't do anything else with the non-zero return than return
EFAULT, then that may instead be a good return value for the routine.

I always try to write the code that calls the "support functions"
first. As a programmer I'm lazy: I get to write clean code, knowing
that the support functions will handle the details. In the end it pays
off.

Roger.

(*) I have not checked wether there are ANY users of the old return
value. If so, we may need to add a new name for a similar function.
If the total lines-of-code is reduced, then I'd say that's a good
modification.

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