linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] UIO: Add a write() function to enable/disable interrupts

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 23 May 2008 12:56:04 +0200
From:	Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@...i.com>
To:	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...utronix.de>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Jan Altenberg <jan.altenberg@...utronix.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] UIO: Add a write() function to enable/disable interrupts

Hello Hans,

Hans J. Koch wrote:
> Am Fri, 23 May 2008 11:10:09 +0200
> schrieb Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@...i.com>:
> 
> > Hans J. Koch wrote:
> > > Am Fri, 23 May 2008 07:55:27 +0200
> > > schrieb Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@...i.com>:
> > > 
> > > > Hello Hans,
> > > > 
> > > > > -      Copyright (c) 2006 by Hans-JÃŒrgen Koch.</para>
> > > > > +      Copyright (c) 2006-2008 by Hans-JÃŒrgen Koch.</para>
> > > > This looks wrong.
> > > 
> > > DocBook XML is supposed to be UTF-8.
> > Correct.  But still the problem is real.  The headers of your mail
> > claim the content to be encoded in UTF-8, but actually it's latin1.
> > So I cannot apply the patch you sent with git am without hand editing.
> 
> Try the version below.
This one is better---I can apply it.

> +	if (copy_from_user(&irq_on, buf, count))
> +		return -EFAULT;
> +
> +	if (!idev->info->irqcontrol)
> +		return -ENOSYS;
I would swap these two.  copy_from_user is more expensive than testing
idev->info->irqcontrol.  (Is it really?)  Anyhow only fetching a value
from userspace if you really need it looks more clean to me.

Otherwise the patch looks fine.

Uwe


-- 
Uwe Kleine-König, Software Engineer
Digi International GmbH Branch Breisach, Küferstrasse 8, 79206 Breisach, Germany
Tax: 315/5781/0242 / VAT: DE153662976 / Reg. Amtsgericht Dortmund HRB 13962
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/