Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:31:31 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: BUG: mmapfile/writev spurious zero bytes (x86_64/not i386, bisected, reproducable) |
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On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Loads are not supposed to fault in copy_to_user(). Only stores are.
Andi, just shut up already.
It is "copy_user". Notice the lack of "from" or "to". That code handles *both* copy_to_user and copy_from_user.
> If your patch fixes something then the main wrong thing is the caller > who passes a faulting source address.
Andi, SHUT THE F*CK UP. Read the code. Read the patch. Sorry for ever involving you. I don't want to hear your idiotic whining.
Linus
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