It will be used in suspend code and serves as an easy wrap around
copy_from_user. Similar to simple_read_from_buffer, it takes care
of transfers with proper lengths depending on available and count
parameters and advances ppos appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@crca.org.au>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
---
fs/libfs.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/fs.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index ea9a6cc..cfab42a 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -547,6 +547,40 @@ ssize_t simple_read_from_buffer(void __user *to, size_t count, loff_t *ppos,
}
/**
+ * simple_write_to_buffer - copy data from user space to the buffer
+ * @to: the buffer to write to
+ * @available: the size of the buffer
+ * @ppos: the current position in the buffer
+ * @from: the user space buffer to read from
+ * @count: the maximum number of bytes to read
+ *
+ * The simple_write_to_buffer() function reads up to @count bytes from the user
+ * space address starting at @from into the buffer @to at offset @ppos.
+ *
+ * On success, the number of bytes written is returned and the offset @ppos is
+ * advanced by this number, or negative value is returned on error.
+ **/
+ssize_t simple_write_to_buffer(void *to, size_t available, loff_t *ppos,
+ const void __user *from, size_t count)
+{
+ loff_t pos = *ppos;
+ size_t ret;
+
+ if (pos < 0)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ if (pos >= available || !count)
+ return 0;
+ if (count > available - pos)
+ count = available - pos;
+ ret = copy_from_user(to + pos, from, count);
+ if (ret == count)
+ return -EFAULT;
+ count -= ret;
+ *ppos = pos + count;
+ return count;
+}
+
+/**
* memory_read_from_buffer - copy data from the buffer
* @to: the kernel space buffer to read to
* @count: the maximum number ...
