[RFC] breakage in 4223cc34365e4 (h8300: uaccess.h update)

From: Al Viro
Date: Sun Mar 02 2008 - 18:23:25 EST


After that commit in asm-h8300/uaccess.h we have

#define get_user(x, ptr) \
({ \
int __gu_err = 0; \
uint32_t __gu_val = 0; \
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
switch (sizeof(*(ptr))) { \
case 1: \
case 2: \
case 4: \
__gu_val = *(ptr); \
break; \
case 8: \
memcpy(&__gu_val, ptr, sizeof (*(ptr))); \
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

which, of course, is FUBAR whenever we actually hit that case - memcpy of
8 bytes into uint32_t is obviously wrong. Why don't we simply do

#define get_user(x, ptr) \
({ \
int __gu_err = 0; \
typeof(*(ptr)) __gu_val = *ptr; \
switch (sizeof(*(ptr))) { \
case 1: \
case 2: \
case 4: \
case 8: \
break; \
default: \
__gu_err = __get_user_bad(); \
break; \
} \
(x) = __gu_val; \
__gu_err; \
})

and be done with that, anyway?
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