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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-06-13 20:52:39 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-06-13 20:52:39 -0700
commit4ae127d1b6c71f9240dd4245f240e6dd8fc98014 (patch)
treeb7aa27b3e0c655f4613fe2146cb57d7f69e421f6 /fs/libfs.c
parent875ec4333b99144e2589e900a0bcd2c25c757b27 (diff)
parent7775c9753b94fe429dc4323360d6502c95e0dd6e (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts: drivers/net/smc911x.c
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/libfs.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/libfs.c18
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index b004dfadd89..892d41cb338 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -528,6 +528,23 @@ ssize_t simple_read_from_buffer(void __user *to, size_t count, loff_t *ppos,
return count;
}
+ssize_t memory_read_from_buffer(void *to, size_t count, loff_t *ppos,
+ const void *from, size_t available)
+{
+ loff_t pos = *ppos;
+
+ if (pos < 0)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ if (pos >= available)
+ return 0;
+ if (count > available - pos)
+ count = available - pos;
+ memcpy(to, from + pos, count);
+ *ppos = pos + count;
+
+ return count;
+}
+
/*
* Transaction based IO.
* The file expects a single write which triggers the transaction, and then
@@ -800,6 +817,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_statfs);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_sync_file);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_unlink);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_read_from_buffer);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(memory_read_from_buffer);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_transaction_get);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_transaction_read);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_transaction_release);