3.7+ kernels and Radeon HD 4250 backlight

Sergey Korshunoff seyko2 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 13 03:15:59 PDT 2014


Hi!
drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_kns.c: static int radeon_info_ioctl(...)
...
value_ptr = (uint32_t *)((unsigned long)info->value);
// value_ptr = (uint32_t __user *)(info->value); // looks like more
correct for x86_64
...
if (copy_to_user(value_ptr, (char*)value, value_size)) {...

Why value_ptr is assumed to be lower 4 Gb?


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