From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: convert to using fops->write_iter()
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 02:08:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yobb79PvIqRRNguV@zx2c4.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f871a510-d262-bc98-757e-204976e1b82c@kernel.dk>
Hi Jens,
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 05:43:15PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> -static int write_pool(const char __user *ubuf, size_t len)
> +static size_t write_pool(struct iov_iter *iter)
> {
> size_t block_len;
> int ret = 0;
Changing the return value to size_t isn't quite right, as this can
return -EFAULT. So at the very minimum, it should return a ssize_t.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-20 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-19 23:43 [PATCH] random: convert to using fops->write_iter() Jens Axboe
2022-05-19 23:52 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-20 0:08 ` Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]
2022-05-20 0:32 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-20 0:18 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-05-20 0:32 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-20 3:01 ` Al Viro
2022-05-20 3:25 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-20 3:31 ` Al Viro
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