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SubjectRe: [PATCH] serial167.c: bugfixes and cleanups
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:04:05PM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Hi Arnaldo,
>
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > - copy_to_user(retinfo,&tmp,sizeof(*retinfo));
> > + if (copy_to_user(retinfo,&tmp,sizeof(*retinfo)))
> > + return -EFAULT;
> > return 0;
>
> I think Linus already suggested that you do this:
>
> return copy_to_user(...) ? -EFAULT : 0;
>
> it is compact and intuitive.

I'm not too sure about that. If you want to do more things than a single
copy,

if (copy_to_user(...))
return -EFAULT;

...;

return 0;

is obviously required. Also for those who don't trust strace (or don't have
it, or can't use it because -EFAULT is ambiguous)

if (copy_to_user(...))
return -EFAULT;

printk("no fault\n");

return 0;

might make sense.
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