Re: [PATCH 22/24] uaccess: add memzero_user

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed May 20 2020 - 17:28:42 EST


On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 11:13:36PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 20/05/20 22:40, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 01:21:43PM -0400, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >> + unsafe_put_user(val, (unsigned long __user *) from, err_fault);
> > This adds a way too long line. In many ways it would be much nicer if
> > you used an unsigned long __user * variable internally, a that would
> > remove all these crazy casts and actually make the code readable.
> >
>
> Good idea, thanks.

Unless I'm seriously misreading that patch, it could've been done as

static inline __must_check int memzero_user(void __user *addr, size_t size)
{
return clear_user(addr, n) ? -EFAULT : 0;
}

What am I missing?