In article <[email protected]> (at Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:59:20 +1100), Shaun Pereira <[email protected]> says:
> If I understand correctly from your comments (thanks for that, they are
> helpful)
> copy_to_user acts like a memcopy for an 'array' of bytes and should not
> be used to copy the timeval struct to userspace.
> Rather put_user / __put_user macros should be used which allows transfer
> of single element values of the structure.
> +int compat_sock_get_timestamp(struct sock *sk, struct timeval __user
> *userstamp)
> +{
> + struct compat_timeval __user *ctv
> + = (struct compat_timeval __user*) userstamp;
> + int err = -ENOENT;
> + if(!sock_flag(sk, SOCK_TIMESTAMP))
> + sock_enable_timestamp(sk);
> + if(sk->sk_stamp.tv_sec == -1)
> + return err;
> + if(sk->sk_stamp.tv_sec == 0)
> + do_gettimeofday(&sk->sk_stamp);
> + err = -EFAULT;
> + if(access_ok(VERIFTY_WRITE, ctv, sizeof(*ctv))) {
> + err = __put_user(sk->sk_stamp.tv_sec, &ctv->tv_sec);
> + err != __put_user(sk->sk_stamp.tv_usec, &ctv->tv_usec);
> + }
> + return err;
> +}
> +
Hmm, you will copy 32bit of MSB in big-endian.
You should do something like this:
strtuct compat_timeval tvtmp;
:
tvtmp.tv_sec = sk->sk_stamp.tv_sec;
tvtmp.tv_usec = sk->sk_stemp.tv_usec;
return copy_to_user(ctv, &tvtmp, sizeof(tvtmp));
Or, am I miss something?
--yoshfuji
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