From 3fcfe78658695b424314ddb76abc8d58b4fc98e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stanislav Kinsbursky Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 15:35:03 -0800 Subject: ipc: add more comments to message copying related code Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: James Morris Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- ipc/msg.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'ipc/msg.c') diff --git a/ipc/msg.c b/ipc/msg.c index 8493e1d7e35..950572f9d79 100644 --- a/ipc/msg.c +++ b/ipc/msg.c @@ -770,6 +770,10 @@ static long do_msg_fill(void __user *dest, struct msg_msg *msg, size_t bufsz) } #ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE +/* + * This function creates new kernel message structure, large enough to store + * bufsz message bytes. + */ static inline struct msg_msg *prepare_copy(void __user *buf, size_t bufsz, int msgflg, long *msgtyp, unsigned long *copy_number) @@ -881,6 +885,10 @@ long do_msgrcv(int msqid, void __user *buf, size_t bufsz, long msgtyp, msg = ERR_PTR(-E2BIG); goto out_unlock; } + /* + * If we are copying, then do not unlink message and do + * not update queue parameters. + */ if (msgflg & MSG_COPY) goto out_unlock; list_del(&msg->m_list); -- cgit v1.2.3