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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gcosta@redhat.com, lenb@kernel.org,
	mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, ying.huang@intel.com,
	Linux Arch Mailing List <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: + drivers-acpi-apei-erst-dbgc-get_useru64-doesnt-work-on-i386.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:10:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C639063.6050505@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100811230353.6cb87afd.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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On 08/11/2010 11:03 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> <I suspect you can do get_user() on a 4-byte or 8-byte struct right now
> and it'll work>

Not so:

/home/hpa/kernel/linux-2.6-tip.urgent/arch/x86/lib/testuser.c:12: error: 
conversion to non-scalar type requested

	-hpa

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#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>

struct foo {
	u16 a, b;
};

int bluttan(struct foo *foo)
{
	struct foo bar;

	if (get_user(bar, foo))
		return -1;

	return bar.a + bar.b;
}

      reply	other threads:[~2010-08-12  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <201008112336.o7BNaNEj020805@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
     [not found] ` <20100811164310.a4790773.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
     [not found]   ` <20100811173327.3ae325ff.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-12  4:22     ` + drivers-acpi-apei-erst-dbgc-get_useru64-doesnt-work-on-i386.patch added to -mm tree H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-12  4:22       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-12  4:30       ` Andrew Morton
2010-08-12  4:30         ` Andrew Morton
2010-08-12  4:42         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-12  5:06         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-12  6:03           ` Andrew Morton
2010-08-12  6:10             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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