linux-kernel - [PATCH] net/core Fix wrong comments about memcpy

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Message-id: <000301ce4b90$5132f170$f398d450$%choi@samsung.com>
Date:	Wed, 08 May 2013 11:04:04 +0900
From:	Jonghwan Choi <jhbird.choi@...sung.com>
To:	'Jonghwan Choi' <jhbird.choi@...sung.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	"'David S. Miller'" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH] net/core Fix wrong comments about memcpy_fromiovecend

"Copy iovec from kernel" should be "Copy iovec to kernel"
because copy_from_user copies data from userspace.

Signed-off-by: Jonghwan Choi <jhbird.choi@...sung.com>
---
 net/core/iovec.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/iovec.c b/net/core/iovec.c
index 7e7aeb0..ba93fd2 100644
--- a/net/core/iovec.c
+++ b/net/core/iovec.c
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ int memcpy_fromiovec(unsigned char *kdata, struct iovec
*iov, int len)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(memcpy_fromiovec);
 
 /*
- *	Copy iovec from kernel. Returns -EFAULT on error.
+ *	Copy iovec to kernel. Returns -EFAULT on error.
  */
 
 int memcpy_fromiovecend(unsigned char *kdata, const struct iovec *iov,
-- 
1.7.

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