linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/5] pagemap: Modify add_to_pagemap to use copy_to_user instead of put

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Date:	Thu, 5 Jun 2008 11:04:21 -0400
From:	"Thomas Tuttle" <ttuttle@...gle.com>
To:	mpm@...enic.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] pagemap: Modify add_to_pagemap to use copy_to_user instead of put_user.

While fiddling with pagemap, I discovered a bug in add_to_pagemap.
When it is copying an entry that is not at the end of the buffer, it
uses put_user to copy a u64 into a char* buffer.  The problem is that
put_user determines how much to copy based on the size of the
*destination*, not the source, so it only copied one byte.  To fix
this, I replaced the call to put_user with a call to copy_to_user, as
is used when copying the last (possibly partial) PFN into the buffer.

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