ipc: add more comments to message copying related code Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/ipc/msg.c b/ipc/msg.c index 8493e1d..950572f 100644 --- a/ipc/msg.c +++ b/ipc/msg.c
@@ -770,6 +770,10 @@ } #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 @@ 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);