Javier Castillo wrote:
> hello, do you know how works command "copy_from_user"??.
>
> I have a struct like this
>
> struct ..... = {
> ..............
> ..............
> struct other_thing ** table
> .............
> }
>
> My problem is that copy_from_user does not copy the "table" correctly,
> well its elements. Is it normal?.
Yes.
It should be obvious that copy_from_user cannot know that some of the
bytes being copied happen to be a pointer to some other data which you
would also like to be copied. And even if it could, it couldn't know
how much data "table" points to.
> If so, then I have to use "copy_from_user" to copy the "table" too?.
Yes.
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