Re: [PATCH 02/03] staging: dgap: fix a few more 80+ lines as reported by checkpatch

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On 03/05/2014 04:47 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 03:54:50PM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
@@ -2953,7 +2955,8 @@ static int dgap_tty_write(struct tty_struct *tty, const unsigned char *buf, int
  		if (down_interruptible(&dgap_TmpWriteSem))
  			return -EINTR;

-		if (copy_from_user(dgap_TmpWriteBuf, (const uchar __user *) buf, count)) {
+		if (copy_from_user(dgap_TmpWriteBuf, (const uchar __user *)buf,
+					count)) {
  			up(&dgap_TmpWriteSem);
  			return -EFAULT;
  		}

This is dead code btw.  "from_user" is always false.


Are you saying that copy_from_user can never return anything but 0?

thanks
mark

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