lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2010]   [Apr]   [6]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
SubjectRe: [patch] proc: copy_to_user() returns unsigned
Date
> copy_to_user() returns the number of bytes left to be copied.
>
> This was a typo from: d82ef020cf31504c816803b1def94eb5ff173363
> "proc: pagemap: Hold mmap_sem during page walk".
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
>
> diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> index 0962739..bfb2773 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> @@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ static ssize_t pagemap_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
> start_vaddr = end;
>
> len = min(count, PM_ENTRY_BYTES * pm.pos);
> - if (copy_to_user(buf, pm.buffer, len) < 0) {
> + if (copy_to_user(buf, pm.buffer, len)) {
> ret = -EFAULT;
> goto out_free;
> }

Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>


However I don't think this patch is kernel-janitors material. it should
be just merged mainline soon.





\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2010-04-06 13:35    [W:0.120 / U:0.732 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site