[PATCH] hpet: fix HPET_INFO calls from kernel space
Fix a wrong memory access in hpet_ioctl_common(). It was not possible to use
the HPET_INFO ioctl from kernel space because it always called copy_to_user().
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/drivers/char/hpet.c b/drivers/char/hpet.c
index 8e59639..c85d11d 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hpet.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hpet.c
@@ -500,8 +500,12 @@
readq(&timer->hpet_config) & Tn_PER_INT_CAP_MASK;
info.hi_hpet = devp->hd_hpets->hp_which;
info.hi_timer = devp - devp->hd_hpets->hp_dev;
- if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &info, sizeof(info)))
- err = -EFAULT;
+ if (kernel)
+ memcpy((void *)arg, &info, sizeof(info));
+ else
+ if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &info,
+ sizeof(info)))
+ err = -EFAULT;
break;
}
case HPET_EPI: