RE: [patch] IB/hfi1: fix copy_to/from_user() error handling

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> Subject: [patch] IB/hfi1: fix copy_to/from_user() error handling
> 
> copy_to/from_user() returns the number of bytes which we were not able to
> copy.  It doesn't return an error code.
> 
> Also a couple places had a printk() on error and I removed that because
> people can take advantage of it to fill /var/log/messages with spam.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Thanks for the patch!

Acked-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@xxxxxxxxx>
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