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| author | Takahiro Itazuri <itazur@amazon.com> | 2022-01-24 17:14:47 +0900 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2022-01-27 11:22:33 -0700 |
| commit | 10855b45a428d8888b1a111d7f607c32a6a49a06 (patch) | |
| tree | a53a6a351932bd688e6dd2503f46e3b54072de62 | |
| parent | 941518d6538afa5ea0edc26e6c009d0b3163d422 (diff) | |
| download | linux-10855b45a428d8888b1a111d7f607c32a6a49a06.tar.gz | |
docs: fix typo in Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
Change copy_from_user*( to copy_from_user() .
Signed-off-by: Takahiro Itazuri <itazur@amazon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220124081447.34066-1-itazur@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst index e6cd40663ea5..4cbd50edf277 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ Pete Zaitcev gives the following summary: - If you are in a process context (any syscall) and want to lock other process out, use a mutex. You can take a mutex and sleep - (``copy_from_user*(`` or ``kmalloc(x,GFP_KERNEL)``). + (``copy_from_user()`` or ``kmalloc(x,GFP_KERNEL)``). - Otherwise (== data can be touched in an interrupt), use spin_lock_irqsave() and |