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authorVitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com>2008-07-02 15:48:21 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-09 15:51:03 +0200
commit1129585a08baf58582c0da91e572cb29e3179acf (patch)
tree8ea03668221455bdeff91f885e4458676a89633b /arch/x86
parentde989ef093623ab5259f885f30be699c431d4006 (diff)
x86: introduce copy_user_handle_tail() routine
Introduce generic C routine for handling necessary tail operations after protection fault in copy_*_user on x86. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c23
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c
index 0c89d1bb028..f4df6e7c718 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c
@@ -158,3 +158,26 @@ unsigned long copy_in_user(void __user *to, const void __user *from, unsigned le
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(copy_in_user);
+/*
+ * Try to copy last bytes and clear the rest if needed.
+ * Since protection fault in copy_from/to_user is not a normal situation,
+ * it is not necessary to optimize tail handling.
+ */
+unsigned long
+copy_user_handle_tail(char *to, char *from, unsigned len, unsigned zerorest)
+{
+ char c;
+ unsigned zero_len;
+
+ for (; len; --len) {
+ if (__get_user_nocheck(c, from++, sizeof(char)))
+ break;
+ if (__put_user_nocheck(c, to++, sizeof(char)))
+ break;
+ }
+
+ for (c = 0, zero_len = len; zerorest && zero_len; --zero_len)
+ if (__put_user_nocheck(c, to++, sizeof(char)))
+ break;
+ return len;
+}