Re: [PATCH v8] Input: Add userio module

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On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 10:30:53AM -0400, cpaul@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Stephen Chandler Paul <cpaul@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +
> +static ssize_t userio_char_read(struct file *file, char __user *user_buffer,
> +				size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
> +{
> +	struct userio_device *userio = file->private_data;
> +	int ret;
> +	size_t nonwrap_len, copylen;
> +	unsigned char buf[USERIO_BUFSIZE];
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +
> +	if (!count)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * By the time we get here, the data that was waiting might have been
> +	 * taken by another thread. Grab the mutex and check if there's still
> +	 * any data waiting, otherwise repeat this process until we have data
> +	 * (unless the file descriptor is non-blocking of course)
> +	 */
> +	for (;;) {
> +		spin_lock_irqsave(&userio->buf_lock, flags);
> +
> +		if (userio->head != userio->tail)
> +			break;
> +
> +		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&userio->buf_lock, flags);
> +
> +		if (file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK)
> +			return -EAGAIN;
> +
> +		ret = wait_event_interruptible(userio->waitq,
> +					       userio->head != userio->tail);
> +		if (ret)
> +			return ret;
> +	}
> +
> +	nonwrap_len = CIRC_CNT_TO_END(userio->head, userio->tail,
> +				      USERIO_BUFSIZE);
> +	copylen = min(nonwrap_len, count);
> +	memcpy(buf, &userio->buf[userio->tail], copylen);
> +
> +	userio->tail = (userio->tail + copylen) % USERIO_BUFSIZE;
> +
> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&userio->buf_lock, flags);
> +
> +	if (copy_to_user(user_buffer, buf, copylen))
> +		return -EFAULT;
> +
> +	return copylen;
> +}

Hello

I think you could simplify by just return copy_to_user() since it return copylen in case of success.

Regards

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