[PATCH] uml: change memcpy to memmove
Replace one memcpy() call with overlapping source and dest arguments with
one call to memmove(), to avoid data corruption.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/irq_user.c b/arch/um/kernel/irq_user.c
index 6d6f948..b3074cb 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/irq_user.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/irq_user.c
@@ -236,9 +236,15 @@
(*prev)->fd, pollfds[i].fd);
goto out;
}
- memcpy(&pollfds[i], &pollfds[i + 1],
- (pollfds_num - i - 1) * sizeof(pollfds[0]));
+
pollfds_num--;
+
+ /* This moves the *whole* array after pollfds[i] (though
+ * it doesn't spot as such)! */
+
+ memmove(&pollfds[i], &pollfds[i + 1],
+ (pollfds_num - i) * sizeof(pollfds[0]));
+
if(last_irq_ptr == &old_fd->next)
last_irq_ptr = prev;
*prev = (*prev)->next;