linux-kernel - [PATCH for review] [20/48] i386: replace hard-coded constant with appropriate macro from kernel.h

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Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:48:49 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	rpjday@...dspring.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH for review] [20/48] i386: replace hard-coded constant with appropriate macro from kernel.h


From: "Robert P.  J.  Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@...dspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>

---

 include/asm-i386/uaccess.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux/include/asm-i386/uaccess.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/asm-i386/uaccess.h
+++ linux/include/asm-i386/uaccess.h
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ long __must_check __strncpy_from_user(ch
  * If there is a limit on the length of a valid string, you may wish to
  * consider using strnlen_user() instead.
  */
-#define strlen_user(str) strnlen_user(str, ~0UL >> 1)
+#define strlen_user(str) strnlen_user(str, LONG_MAX)
 
 long strnlen_user(const char __user *str, long n);
 unsigned long __must_check clear_user(void __user *mem, unsigned long len);
-
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