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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/media/video/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: Check the return value of copy_to_user
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:03:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201012212003.11446.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikbvST_B+4x3Xt=gxFhM1TBOrXVc1HjZT3zTXrt@mail.gmail.com>

On Tuesday 21 December 2010 19:34:04 Thiago Farina wrote:
> > You can probably change this function to look at the return code of
> > copy_to_user, but then you need to treat the put_user return code
> > the same, and change the comment.
> >
> 
> Right, I will do the same with put_user, but I'm afraid of changing the comment.

The comment makes no sense when the code doesn't do what is explained
there.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-21 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-21  1:18 [PATCH] drivers/media/video/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: Check the return value of copy_to_user Thiago Farina
2010-12-21 18:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-12-21 18:34   ` Thiago Farina
2010-12-21 19:03     ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-12-21 23:48       ` [PATCH v2] " Thiago Farina
2010-12-22 14:14         ` Andreas Oberritter
2010-12-22 15:50           ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-12-21 23:55     ` [PATCH] " Mauro Carvalho Chehab

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