Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:16:00PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>   >  unsigned long __copy_to_user_ll(void __user *to, const void *from, 
> unsigned long n)
>   >  {
>   >   BUG_ON((long) n < 0);
> 
>  Ehh? It's unsigned. This will never be true.

It's cast to long, so it'll trap if we try to copy >=2G.

It seems a strange thing to check though.   Do we really need it?
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