From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 2/3] kernel.h: add to_user_ptr()
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:10:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1458249003.9556.30.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF6AEGuzr2Vm_yngN7WcoeMLiiqb8B+kEBaNaPNqXdV2ZC-u-Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 16:50 -0400, Rob Clark wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
[]
> > It's a name that seems like it should be a straightforward
> > cast of a kernel pointer to a __user pointer like:
> >
> > static inline void __user *to_user_ptr(void *p)
> > {
> > return (void __user *)p;
> > }
> ahh, ok. I guess I was used to using it in the context of ioctl
> structs.. in that context u64 -> (void __user *) made more sense.
>
> Maybe uapi_to_ptr()? (ok, not super-creative.. maybe someone has a
> better idea)
Maybe u64_to_user_ptr?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-17 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-17 17:30 [PATCH v9 1/3] staging/android: remove redundant comments on sync_merge_data Gustavo Padovan
2016-03-17 17:30 ` [PATCH v9 2/3] kernel.h: add to_user_ptr() Gustavo Padovan
2016-03-17 17:41 ` Joe Perches
2016-03-17 18:05 ` Gustavo Padovan
2016-03-17 18:43 ` Gustavo Padovan
2016-03-17 20:22 ` Joe Perches
2016-03-17 20:33 ` Rob Clark
2016-03-17 20:40 ` Joe Perches
2016-03-17 20:50 ` Rob Clark
2016-03-17 21:10 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2016-03-17 21:19 ` Gustavo Padovan
2016-03-17 21:25 ` Rob Clark
2016-03-17 21:33 ` Joe Perches
2016-03-17 22:16 ` Gustavo Padovan
2016-03-18 8:23 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-03-17 17:30 ` [PATCH v9 3/3] staging/android: refactor SYNC IOCTLs Gustavo Padovan
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