RE: [PATCH 1/3] aacraid: Fix return code interpretation

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Are you sure of this? The code that follows expects the end of the
structure to be cleared.

Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 4:11 PM
> To: Mark Haverkamp
> Cc: James Bottomley; linux-scsi; Salyzyn, Mark
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] aacraid: Fix return code interpretation
> 
> 
> > @@ -564,7 +564,7 @@
> >  		
> >  		f = compat_alloc_user_space(sizeof(*f));
> >  		ret = 0;
> > -		if (clear_user(f, sizeof(*f)) != sizeof(*f))
> > +		if (clear_user(f, sizeof(*f)))
> >  			ret = -EFAULT;
> >  		if (copy_in_user(f, (void __user *)arg, 
> sizeof(struct fib_ioctl) - sizeof(u32)))
> >  			ret = -EFAULT;
> > 
> 
> just remove the clear_user call completely, it's not needed.
> 
> 
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