On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 04:32:53PM +0100, Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
> These functions are aliases to __copy_{to,from}_user resp but they
> are not allowed to sleep. Therefore might_sleep() must not be used
> by their implementions.
The _inatomic functions are know to buggy but this doesn't quite fix the
whole issues with them. On error __copy_from_user_inatomic should not
clear the non-copied part of the destination buffer. See
01408c4939479ec46c15aa7ef6e2406be50eeeca and
7c12d81134b130ccd4c286b434ca48c4cda71a2f for the rationale.
Ralf
