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| author | Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> | 2005-10-31 02:03:37 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-10-31 04:37:30 +0300 |
| commit | 8e8505be9c0ba608cbd634faa8fba361f17d2512 (patch) | |
| tree | dcb75f543bb9b75b8c6bf0260f2b5f5283533c7e /drivers/char | |
| parent | 7811fb8f400a3dbfa027d86bb583a31c66fddfc3 (diff) | |
| download | linux-8e8505be9c0ba608cbd634faa8fba361f17d2512.tar.xz | |
[PATCH] hpet: fix HPET_INFO calls from kernel space
Fix a wrong memory access in hpet_ioctl_common(). It was not possible to use
the HPET_INFO ioctl from kernel space because it always called copy_to_user().
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/hpet.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hpet.c b/drivers/char/hpet.c index 8e59639fb03c..c85d11de5feb 100644 --- a/drivers/char/hpet.c +++ b/drivers/char/hpet.c @@ -500,8 +500,12 @@ hpet_ioctl_common(struct hpet_dev *devp, int cmd, unsigned long arg, int kernel) readq(&timer->hpet_config) & Tn_PER_INT_CAP_MASK; info.hi_hpet = devp->hd_hpets->hp_which; info.hi_timer = devp - devp->hd_hpets->hp_dev; - if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &info, sizeof(info))) - err = -EFAULT; + if (kernel) + memcpy((void *)arg, &info, sizeof(info)); + else + if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &info, + sizeof(info))) + err = -EFAULT; break; } case HPET_EPI: |