From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756906AbZEAJfg (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2009 05:35:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753645AbZEAJf1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2009 05:35:27 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.188]:50824 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752054AbZEAJf0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2009 05:35:26 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Russell King Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/27] add generic lib/checksum.c Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 11:35:14 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Michal Simek , Remis Lima Baima , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20090501092027.GA29366@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090501092027.GA29366@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> X-Face: I@=L^?./?$U,EK.)V[4*>`zSqm0>65YtkOe>TFD'!aw?7OVv#~5xd\s,[~w]-J!)|%=]>=?utf-8?q?+=0A=09=7EohchhkRGW=3F=7C6=5FqTmkd=5Ft=3FLZC=23Q-=60=2E=60Y=2Ea=5E?= =?utf-8?q?3zb?=) =?utf-8?q?+U-JVN=5DWT=25cw=23=5BYo0=267C=26bL12wWGlZi=0A=09=7EJ=3B=5Cwg?= =?utf-8?q?=3B3zRnz?=,J"CT_)=\H'1/{?SR7GDu?WIopm.HaBG=QYj"NZD_[zrM\Gip^U MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905011135.15137.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/Cdq1kNdjFzqN7cU/wn1L9Du86jzmynbKw9w7 53eUaobpo3z4b5TsaTLMg9Acqvm2qu+SCFiAzaJwAFXJPmUnmx t36SuPBPLNmF1D+C83wbA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 01 May 2009, Russell King wrote: > Since when has 'memcpy' been valid from user addresses? It's an artifact from the microblaze code, I found it after submitting the patches when running sparse over it (yes, I know I should do these things in a different order). The s390 version seems to get this right, so I'll use this: static inline __wsum csum_partial_copy_from_user(const void __user *src, void *dst, int len, __wsum sum, int *err_ptr) { int missing; missing = copy_from_user(dst, src, len); if (missing) { memset(dst + len - missing, 0, missing); *err_ptr = -EFAULT; } return csum_partial(dst, len, sum); } On microblaze, the old code was only correct for NOMMU. Thanks, Arnd <><