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Message-ID: <871qg4za0n.wl-tiwai@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 15:54:16 +0200
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/25] ALSA: core: Add memory copy helpers between iov_iter and iomem
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 15:51:30 +0200,
Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 01:55:01PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > Add two more helpers for copying memory between iov_iter and iomem,
> > which will be used by the new PCM copy ops in a few drivers.
> > The existing helpers became wrappers of those now.
> >
> > Note that copy_from/to_iter() returns the copied bytes, hence the
> > error condition is inverted from copy_from/to_user().
>
> ...
>
> > - return copy_to_user(dst, (const void __force*)src, count) ? -EFAULT : 0;
> > + return !copy_to_iter((const void __force *)src, count, dst) ? -EFAULT : 0;
>
> Inverted means, I believe, this
>
> return copy_to_iter((const void __force *)src, count, dst) == count ? 0 : -EFAULT;
>
> as far as I understand the idea behind the copy_to_user() return value.
>
> Ditto for other cases.
OK, this looks more correct. I'll fix in v2.
thanks,
Takashi
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