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From: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Subject: Re: [TRIVIAL] copy_XX_user for sg.c - take 2
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:25:46 -0400
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To: Rusty Trivial Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Trivial Russell wrote:
> 
> [ This one is hardly trivial: it seems correct, but... Please check ]
> 
> From: (via Rusty) william stinson <wstinson@infonie.fr>
> 
>   Hi Rusty,
> 
>   here is version 2 of my sg.c patch to correct indentation to 4blanks as you pointed out (I hope I didn't miss anything).
> 
>   This proposed patch for the sg.c driver which allows user process control of SCSI devices
>           1) checks the result of copy_XX_user
>           2) returns -EFAULT in case not all data was copied
>           3) releases resources in case of failure
>           4) return value of sg_read_oxfer changed from void to int 
> in order to be able to pass back error conditions

Rusty,
This patch, together with one to disable kiobufs usage
(for Andrew Morton's direct-to-BIO changes), are in
lk 2.5.26

Doug Gilbert