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.Dd $Mdocdate: November 23 2015 $ .Dt COPYIN 9 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm copyin , .Nm copyout , .Nm copyinstr , .Nm copyoutstr , .Nm kcopy .Nd kernel copy functions .Sh SYNOPSIS n sys/types.h n sys/systm.h .Ft int .Fn copyin "const void *uaddr" "void *kaddr" "size_t len" .Ft int .Fn copyout "const void *kaddr" "void *uaddr" "size_t len" .Ft int .Fn copyinstr "const void *uaddr" "void *kaddr" "size_t len" "size_t *done" .Ft int .Fn copyoutstr "const void *kaddr" "void *uaddr" "size_t len" "size_t *done" .Ft int .Fn kcopy "const void *kfaddr" "void *kdaddr" "size_t len" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm functions are designed to copy contiguous data from one address to another. All but .Fn kcopy copy data from user-space to kernel-space or vice-versa.
p
The
.Nm
routines provide the following functionality:
l -tag -width "copyoutstr()" t Fn copyin Copies
.Fa len
bytes of data from the user-space address
.Fa uaddr
to the kernel-space address
.Fa kaddr .
t Fn copyout Copies
.Fa len
bytes of data from the kernel-space address
.Fa kaddr
to the user-space address
.Fa uaddr .
t Fn copyinstr Copies a null-terminated string, at most
.Fa len
bytes long, from user-space address
.Fa uaddr
to kernel-space address
.Fa kaddr .
The number of bytes actually copied, including the terminating null,
is returned in
.Fa *done ,
if
.Fa done
is not
.Dv NULL .
t Fn copyoutstr Copies a null-terminated string, at most
.Fa len
bytes long, from kernel-space address
.Fa kaddr
to user-space address
.Fa uaddr .
The number of bytes actually copied, including the terminating null,
is returned in
.Fa *done ,
if
.Fa done
is not
.Dv NULL .
t Fn kcopy Copies
.Fa len
bytes of data from the kernel-space address
.Fa kfaddr
to the kernel-space address
.Fa kdaddr .
.El
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Nm
functions return 0 on success or
.Er EFAULT
if a bad address is encountered.
In addition, the
.Fn copyinstr
and
.Fn copyoutstr
functions return
.Er ENAMETOOLONG
if the string is longer than
.Fa len
bytes.
.Sh SEE ALSO