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h8300: fix recent uaccess breakage
authorYoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:32:37 +0000 (12:32 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:11:43 +0000 (13:11 -0700)
commit12d48739d0b5d96efe6b7d26107f5572c6215f4a
tree0a2fa386b8d3449900caf1150093698d0b4373f1
parentfb39380b8d683b55630ba5ba381f4e43e417420e
h8300: fix recent uaccess breakage

Al Viro wrote:
>
>  After that commit in asm-h8300/uaccess.h we have
>
> #define get_user(x, ptr)                                        \
> ({                                                              \
>     int __gu_err = 0;                                           \
>     uint32_t __gu_val = 0;                              \
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>     switch (sizeof(*(ptr))) {                                   \
>     case 1:                                                     \
>     case 2:                                                     \
>     case 4:                                                     \
>         __gu_val = *(ptr);                                      \
>         break;                                                  \
>     case 8:                                                     \
>         memcpy(&__gu_val, ptr, sizeof (*(ptr)));                \
>                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> which, of course, is FUBAR whenever we actually hit that case - memcpy of
> 8 bytes into uint32_t is obviously wrong.  Why don't we simply do

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/asm-h8300/uaccess.h