[PATCH 1/14] i386 / Make write ldt return error code

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* Andi Kleen (ak@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 05:06:18PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> > In this case the callers do propagate the error (unless you mean
> > userspace doesn't check return value from syscall, which is same problem
> > if copy_from_user failed, for example).  Xen has done some more wrapping
> 
> Nothing checks them in user space.
> 
> Also how would you handle them anyways? It just doesn't make sense.

Yes, I see your point, although copy_from_user failing has similar issue
if userspace isn't checking errors.  But this one is not critical.

thanks,
-chris

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