On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Philipp Rumpf wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:04:05PM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> > Hi Arnaldo,
> >
> > On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > > - copy_to_user(retinfo,&tmp,sizeof(*retinfo));
> > > + if (copy_to_user(retinfo,&tmp,sizeof(*retinfo)))
> > > + return -EFAULT;
> > > return 0;
> >
> > I think Linus already suggested that you do this:
> >
> > return copy_to_user(...) ? -EFAULT : 0;
> >
> > it is compact and intuitive.
>
> I'm not too sure about that. If you want to do more things than a single
> copy,
>
> if (copy_to_user(...))
> return -EFAULT;
>
> ...;
>
> return 0;
>
> is obviously required.
I did think of that, of course, before commenting - the reason I commented
is precisely because in his specific case using the short one-line form is
the right thing to do.
Regards,
Tigran
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