linux-device-driver

I have always been told(In books and tutorials) that while copying data from kernel space to user space, we should use copy_to_user() and using memcpy() would cause problems to the system. Recently by mistake i have used memcpy() and it worked perfectly fine with out any problems. Why is that we should use copy_to_user instead of memcpy() My test code(Kernel module) is something like this: static ssize_t test_read(struct file *file, char __user * buf, size_t len, loff_t * offset) { char ani[100]; if (!*offset) { memset(ani, 'A', 100); if (memcpy(buf, ani, 100)) return -EFAULT; *offset = 100;

I wrote a platform driver for a peripheral we developed and would like to expose some configuration options to the sysfs. I have managed to create the appropriate files using attribute structs (see below) and sysfs_create_file in the probe function, but I can't figure out how to attach the show/store functions to the structs in a platform driver. Most resources I found online used a device_attribute struct or something similar to create their files, is that also appropriate here? Is there another way to do this for a platform driver? My attribute struct looks like this: struct attribute subkey

I'm writing ethernet network driver for linux. I want to receive packets, edit and resend them. I know how to edit the packet in packet_interceptor function, but how can I drop incoming packets in this function?? #include <linux/netdevice.h> #include <linux/skbuff.h> #include <linux/ip.h> #include <net/sock.h> struct packet_type my_proto; int packet_interceptor(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, struct packet_type *pt, struct net_device *orig_dev) { // I dont want certain packets go to upper in net_devices for further processing. // How can I drop sk_buff here?! return 0; } static