[PATCH V2 1/6] stm class: Add ioctl get_options interface
Alexander Shishkin
alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com
Fri Feb 5 04:55:31 PST 2016
Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan at linaro.org> writes:
> There is already an interface of set_options, but no get_options yet.
> Before setting any options, one would may want to see the current
> status of that option by means of get_options interface. This
> interface has been used in CoreSight STM driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan at linaro.org>
> ---
> drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c | 11 +++++++++++
> include/linux/stm.h | 3 +++
> include/uapi/linux/stm.h | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
> index b6445d9..86bb4e3 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
> @@ -571,6 +571,17 @@ stm_char_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
> options);
>
> break;
> +
> + case STP_GET_OPTIONS:
> + if (stm_data->get_options)
> + err = stm_data->get_options(stm_data,
> + stmf->output.master,
> + stmf->output.channel,
> + stmf->output.nr_chans,
> + &options);
> +
> + return copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &options, sizeof(u64));
The return value of copy_to_user() is not what you assume it is.
Regards,
--
Alex
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