Commit 10855b45 authored by Takahiro Itazuri's avatar Takahiro Itazuri Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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docs: fix typo in Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst 



Change copy_from_user*( to copy_from_user() .

Signed-off-by: default avatarTakahiro Itazuri <itazur@amazon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220124081447.34066-1-itazur@amazon.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 941518d6

Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst

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@@ -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