Re: [RFC PATCH 4/7] sound: core: Avoid using timespec for struct snd_rawmidi_status

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Sep 21 2017 - 08:56:54 EST


On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> - case SNDRV_RAWMIDI_IOCTL_STATUS:
> +#if __BITS_PER_LONG == 32
> + case SNDRV_RAWMIDI_IOCTL_STATUS32:
> + {
> + int err = 0;
> + struct snd_rawmidi_status32 __user *status = argp;
> + struct snd_rawmidi_status32 status32;
> + struct snd_rawmidi_status64 status64;
> +
> + if (copy_from_user(&status32, argp,
> + sizeof(struct snd_rawmidi_status32)))
> + return -EFAULT;
> + switch (status32.stream) {
> + case SNDRV_RAWMIDI_STREAM_OUTPUT:
> + if (rfile->output == NULL)
> + return -EINVAL;
> + err = snd_rawmidi_output_status(rfile->output, &status64);
> + break;
> + case SNDRV_RAWMIDI_STREAM_INPUT:
> + if (rfile->input == NULL)
> + return -EINVAL;
> + err = snd_rawmidi_input_status(rfile->input, &status64);
> + break;
> + default:
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> + if (err < 0)
> + return err;
> +
> + if (put_user(status64.stream, &status->stream) ||
> + put_user(status64.tstamp.tv_sec, &status->tstamp.tv_sec) ||
> + put_user(status64.tstamp.tv_nsec, &status->tstamp.tv_nsec) ||
> + put_user(status64.avail, &status->avail) ||
> + put_user(status64.xruns, &status->xruns))
> + return -EFAULT;
> + return 0;
> + }

This follows the existing coding style for the other functions, but I think
it would be nicer to express the last part as

status32 = (struct snd_rawmidi_status32) {
.stream = status->stream,
.tstamp.tv_sec, &status->tstamp.tv_sec,
.tstamp.tv_nsec, &status->tstamp.tv_nsec,
.avail, &status->avail,
.xruns, &status->xruns,
};
if (copy_to_user(status, &status32, sizeof(*status))
return -EFAULT;
return 0;

It's completely equivalent, I just find my version easier to read, and
it should produce slightly better object code.

Maybe the maintainers have a preference, or there might be
a good reason to use the series of put_user() instead.

Arnd