Re: mmotm 2009-08-04-14-22 uploaded (ummunotify)

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Wed Aug 05 2009 - 00:47:48 EST


Andrew, can you add this into the ummunotify patch, or add it on top or whatever?

Fix

ummunotify.c:(.text+0x8f217): undefined reference to `__get_user_X'

when building for i386 -- get_user() can't handle u64 on all
architectures, so just use copy_from_user().

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/ummunotify.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/ummunotify.c b/drivers/char/ummunotify.c
index 725fbb0..29de6ab 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ummunotify.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ummunotify.c
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ static long ummunotify_unregister_region(struct ummunotify_file *priv,
struct ummunotify_reg *reg;
int ret = -EINVAL;

- if (get_user(user_cookie, arg))
+ if (copy_from_user(&user_cookie, arg, sizeof user_cookie))
return -EFAULT;

spin_lock_irq(&priv->lock);
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