fs/fcntl: use copy_to/from_user() for u64 types
Some architectures (at least PPC) doesn't like get/put_user with
64-bit types on a 32-bit system. Use the variably sized copy
to/from user variants instead.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fixes: c75b1d9421f8 ("fs: add fcntl() interface for setting/getting write life time hints")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
diff --git a/fs/fcntl.c b/fs/fcntl.c
index 67bdc6e..ed051f8 100644
--- a/fs/fcntl.c
+++ b/fs/fcntl.c
@@ -264,15 +264,18 @@ static long fcntl_rw_hint(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
u64 *argp = (u64 __user *)arg;
enum rw_hint hint;
+ u64 h;
switch (cmd) {
case F_GET_FILE_RW_HINT:
- if (put_user(file_write_hint(file), argp))
+ h = file_write_hint(file);
+ if (copy_to_user(argp, &h, sizeof(*argp)))
return -EFAULT;
return 0;
case F_SET_FILE_RW_HINT:
- if (get_user(hint, argp))
+ if (copy_from_user(&h, argp, sizeof(h)))
return -EFAULT;
+ hint = (enum rw_hint) h;
if (!rw_hint_valid(hint))
return -EINVAL;
@@ -281,12 +284,14 @@ static long fcntl_rw_hint(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
spin_unlock(&file->f_lock);
return 0;
case F_GET_RW_HINT:
- if (put_user(inode->i_write_hint, argp))
+ h = inode->i_write_hint;
+ if (copy_to_user(argp, &h, sizeof(*argp)))
return -EFAULT;
return 0;
case F_SET_RW_HINT:
- if (get_user(hint, argp))
+ if (copy_from_user(&h, argp, sizeof(h)))
return -EFAULT;
+ hint = (enum rw_hint) h;
if (!rw_hint_valid(hint))
return -EINVAL;