[PATCH 4/6] xfs: use memdup_user()
Li Zefan
lizf at cn.fujitsu.com
Wed Apr 8 19:43:33 CDT 2009
Roland Dreier wrote:
> > wouldn't NULL be a better error return for this kind of interface,
> > matching kmalloc?
>
> I guess returning an error code from memdup_user() lets callers
> distinguish between ENOMEM and EFAULT. Not sure if that's important or
> not but there probably are at least some sites that care.
>
Right, and this API is simlilar to strndup_user().
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