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SubjectRe: [PATCH] serial167.c: bugfixes and cleanups
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>>>>> "Tigran" == Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com> writes:

Tigran> Hi Arnaldo, On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Tigran> wrote:
>> - copy_to_user(retinfo,&tmp,sizeof(*retinfo)); + if
>> (copy_to_user(retinfo,&tmp,sizeof(*retinfo))) + return -EFAULT;
>> return 0;

Tigran> I think Linus already suggested that you do this:

Tigran> return copy_to_user(...) ? -EFAULT : 0;

Tigran> it is compact and intuitive.

Why? the other one will, do exactly the same and is just as
readable. It's the copy_from_user_ret() that is the real problem.

Jes
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