[PATCH] docs: fix typo in Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst

From: Takahiro Itazuri
Date: Mon Jan 24 2022 - 03:15:27 EST


Change copy_from_user*( to copy_from_user() .

Signed-off-by: Takahiro Itazuri <itazur@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
index e6cd40663ea5..4cbd50edf277 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ Pete Zaitcev gives the following summary:

- If you are in a process context (any syscall) and want to lock other
process out, use a mutex. You can take a mutex and sleep
- (``copy_from_user*(`` or ``kmalloc(x,GFP_KERNEL)``).
+ (``copy_from_user()`` or ``kmalloc(x,GFP_KERNEL)``).

- Otherwise (== data can be touched in an interrupt), use
spin_lock_irqsave() and
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