Re: [patch v2] fcntl: return -EFAULT if copy_to_user fails

[Eric Dumazet]

Le jeudi 03 juin 2010 Ã 22:24 +0900, Takuya Yoshikawa a Ãcrit :
> (2010/06/03 22:10), Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 02:38:03PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> >> This is really ugly.
> >>
> >> static inline int sec_copy_to_user(arg1, arg2, arg3)
> >> {
> >> 	int res = copy_to_user(arg1, arg2, arg3);
> >>
> >> 	return (res>  0) ? -EFAULT : res;
> >> }
> >
> > It would be unfortunate if it adds more confusion. I'd prefer to have
> > a sufficiently different name. memcpy_to_user/memcpy_from_user
> > perhaps?
> 
> Then, and memclear_user() ?
> 
> >
> 

We are interested by the fact that full copy is done, so maybe use the
'full' prefix ?

fullcopy_to_user() , fullclear_user() ?



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