On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 00:27 +0200, Vincenzo Mallozzi wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've created an array with the kmalloc function in my
> kernel module and I want to pass it in user space by
> means of the ioctl commands but I don't know how can I
> perform such an operation.
> I've heard about copy_to_user function but I haven't
> understood how I can use it in order to pass a whole
> array.
> Can anyone help me? There are other solutions you can
> suggest me?
> Thanks.
>
> Vincenzo Mallozzi
An array is just a special pointer. It can be passed using
copy_to_user().
It can be used as a pointer.
/* To create a character array of size ARRAY_SIZE */
char *p = kmalloc(sizeof(char) * ARRAY_SIZE), GPF_KERNEL);
if(copy_to_user(user_buffer, p, ARRAY_SIZE)){
return -EFAULT;
}
If it is an array of pointers, then
I suggest you create two ioctl calls
1) to get the size of the array.
2) to get a member of the array for a particular index.
This member can be copied to user space using copy_to_user.
hope it helps
taha
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