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| author | Ahmad Fatoum <ahmad@a3f.at> | 2017-07-08 22:28:44 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2017-07-11 23:34:54 +0300 |
| commit | 5e34fa23ced16f03fe163d3f31fddcae91c3f2fc (patch) | |
| tree | c5e742e1695d69a338cc34a33364ed70e2371683 /Documentation | |
| parent | f4e27944f9cf9a94dd9b37a834512586c1f1a5d2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-5e34fa23ced16f03fe163d3f31fddcae91c3f2fc.tar.xz | |
net: Fix minor code bug in timestamping.txt
Passing (void*)val instead of &val would make a pointer out of an integer
and cause sock_setsockopt to -EFAULT.
See tools/testing/selftests/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c
for a working example.
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <ahmad@a3f.at>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt index 196ba17cc344..1be0b6f9e0cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt @@ -44,8 +44,7 @@ timeval of SO_TIMESTAMP (ms). Supports multiple types of timestamp requests. As a result, this socket option takes a bitmap of flags, not a boolean. In - err = setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_TIMESTAMPING, (void *) val, - sizeof(val)); + err = setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_TIMESTAMPING, &val, sizeof(val)); val is an integer with any of the following bits set. Setting other bit returns EINVAL and does not change the current state. @@ -249,8 +248,7 @@ setsockopt to receive timestamps: __u32 val = SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE | SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID /* or any other flag */; - err = setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_TIMESTAMPING, (void *) val, - sizeof(val)); + err = setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_TIMESTAMPING, &val, sizeof(val)); 1.4 Bytestream Timestamps |