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authorTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2016-03-15 01:33:39 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-03-16 11:02:18 +0300
commitcbf8b5a2b649a501758291cb4d4ba1e5711771ba (patch)
tree3d4f98e0dfff996531c295c8fbd95593f5f8ff1f /arch/x86/include
parentba4e06d68ea4fd2be401d7226c68941892d6bbaf (diff)
downloadlinux-cbf8b5a2b649a501758291cb4d4ba1e5711771ba.tar.xz
x86/mm, x86/mce: Fix return type/value for memcpy_mcsafe()
Returning a 'bool' was very unpopular. Doubly so because the code was just wrong (returning zero for true, one for false; great for shell programming, not so good for C). Change return type to "int". Keep zero as the success indicator because it matches other similar code and people may be more comfortable writing: if (memcpy_mcsafe(to, from, count)) { printk("Sad panda, copy failed\n"); ... } Make the failure return value -EFAULT for now. Reported by: Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@nextfour.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: mika.penttila@nextfour.com Fixes: 92b0729c34ca ("x86/mm, x86/mce: Add memcpy_mcsafe()") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/695f14233fa7a54fcac4406c706d7fec228e3f4c.1457993040.git.tony.luck@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h
index ca6ba3607705..90dbbd9666d4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h
@@ -87,9 +87,9 @@ int strcmp(const char *cs, const char *ct);
*
* Low level memory copy function that catches machine checks
*
- * Return true for success, false for fail
+ * Return 0 for success, -EFAULT for fail
*/
-bool memcpy_mcsafe(void *dst, const void *src, size_t cnt);
+int memcpy_mcsafe(void *dst, const void *src, size_t cnt);
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */