Re: patchlet for cs46xx

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:59:49 +0100

On Thu, Jan 25 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> [SNIPPED...]
> >From what I tested, copy_to/from_user, now seg-faults the caller directly.
> If the function returns, it worked. Therefore you will never get a
> chance to return -EFAULT.

Huh?? copy_to/from_user returns the bytes _not_ copied, in which
case you return -EFAULT go segv the caller.

I think the confusion usually is that put/get_user return -EFAULT
directly.

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* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* SuSE Labs
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