Re: {put,get}_user() side effects

[Russell King]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 12:03:14PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On most (all?) architectures {get,put}_user() has side effects:
> 
> #define put_user(x,ptr)                                                 \
>   __put_user_check((__typeof__(*(ptr)))(x),(ptr),sizeof(*(ptr)))

I thought this came up before, and it was decided that put_user and
get_user must not have such side effects - I certainly remember fixing
this very thing on ARM.

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Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
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