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From: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	John Williams <john.williams@petalogix.com>
Subject: generic uaccess.h
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:39:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A69651E.7040305@monstr.eu> (raw)

Hi Arnd,

I have just look at asm-generic uaccess.h and there is one thing which
seems to me wrong.

For put_user macro - you use __copy_to_user but you have for 64bit case
ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
but  look at fs/eventfd: eventfd_read function. At least for this
function(syscall) is necessary "return" 64bit
value on 32bit machines too.
IMHO that ifdef CONFIG_64BIT shouldn't be there.

What do you think?
If you agree with me, I'll generate proper patch with description.

Thanks,
Michal


diff --git a/include/asm-generic/uaccess.h b/include/asm-generic/uaccess.h
index b218b85..bbbb983 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/uaccess.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/uaccess.h
@@ -119,11 +119,9 @@ static inline __must_check long __copy_to_user(void
__user
                case 4:
                        *(u32 __force *)to = *(u32 *)from;
                        return 0;
-#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
                case 8:
                        *(u64 __force *)to = *(u64 *)from;
                        return 0;
-#endif
                default:
                        break;
                }


-- 
Michal Simek, Ing. (M.Eng)
w: www.monstr.eu p: +42-0-721842854


             reply	other threads:[~2009-07-24  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-24  7:39 Michal Simek [this message]
2009-07-24  9:20 ` generic uaccess.h Arnd Bergmann
2009-07-24  9:44   ` Michal Simek
2009-07-27  9:43   ` Michal Simek
2009-07-27 18:18     ` Arnd Bergmann

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