Re: [PATCH 2/4] Input: introduce ABS_MAX2/CNT2 and friends

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Wed Dec 18 2013 - 18:48:45 EST


On Thursday, December 19, 2013 09:40:09 AM Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > + memset(&abs, 0, sizeof(abs));
> > + for (i = valid_cnt; i < cnt; ++i)
> > + if (copy_to_user(&pinfo->info[i], &abs, sizeof(abs)))
> > + return -EFAULT;
> > +
> > + return 0;
>
> why don't you return the number of valid copied axes to the user?
> that seems better even than forcing the remainder to 0.

Well, if your program messed up buffers that it faulted we do not know
for sure if data that did not cause fault ended up where it should have
or if it smashed something else. This condition I think should be
signaled early.

--
Dmitry
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