2 * Berkeley style UIO structures - Alan Cox 1994.
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12 #include <uapi/linux/uio.h>
16 void *iov_base; /* and that should *never* hold a userland pointer */
21 * Total number of bytes covered by an iovec.
23 * NOTE that it is not safe to use this function until all the iovec's
24 * segment lengths have been validated. Because the individual lengths can
25 * overflow a size_t when added together.
27 static inline size_t iov_length(const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs)
32 for (seg = 0; seg < nr_segs; seg++)
33 ret += iov[seg].iov_len;
37 unsigned long iov_shorten(struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs, size_t to);