On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 16:05 -0400, David Miller wrote: > Applied, but I think you should give maybe a little bit more thought > into the behavior when a not-large-enough buffer is supplied by the > user. > > Since we're talking about things on the order of 60 bytes or so at > most, it seems clear to me that signalling an error is probably the > most advisable thing to do in this situation. > > Maybe you could signal an error, yet write the actual length to > "optlen". That way the user can figure out how much they need. Then > they at least would have the option of retrying with a larger buffer. Seems fine to me, I'll provide a patch implementing your suggestions. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
