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36.Dd $Mdocdate: January 6 2023 $
37.Dt COPYIN 9
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm copyin ,
41.Nm copyout ,
42.Nm copyinstr ,
43.Nm copyoutstr ,
44.Nm kcopy
45.Nd kernel copy functions
46.Sh SYNOPSIS
47.In sys/types.h
48.In sys/systm.h
49.Ft int
50.Fn copyin "const void *uaddr" "void *kaddr" "size_t len"
51.Ft int
52.Fn copyout "const void *kaddr" "void *uaddr" "size_t len"
53.Ft int
54.Fn copyinstr "const void *uaddr" "void *kaddr" "size_t len" "size_t *done"
55.Ft int
56.Fn copyoutstr "const void *kaddr" "void *uaddr" "size_t len" "size_t *done"
57.Ft int
58.Fn kcopy "const void *kfaddr" "void *kdaddr" "size_t len"
59.Sh DESCRIPTION
60The
61.Nm
62functions are designed to copy contiguous data from one address to another.
63All but
64.Fn kcopy
65copy data from user-space to kernel-space or vice-versa.
66.Pp
67The
68.Nm
69routines provide the following functionality:
70.Bl -tag -width "copyoutstr()"
71.It Fn copyin
72Copies
73.Fa len
74bytes of data from the user-space address
75.Fa uaddr
76to the kernel-space address
77.Fa kaddr .
78.It Fn copyout
79Copies
80.Fa len
81bytes of data from the kernel-space address
82.Fa kaddr
83to the user-space address
84.Fa uaddr .
85.It Fn copyinstr
86Copies a null-terminated string, at most
87.Fa len
88bytes long, from user-space address
89.Fa uaddr
90to kernel-space address
91.Fa kaddr .
92The number of bytes actually copied, including the terminating null,
93is returned in
94.Fa *done ,
95if
96.Fa done
97is not
98.Dv NULL .
99.It Fn copyoutstr
100Copies a null-terminated string, at most
101.Fa len
102bytes long, from kernel-space address
103.Fa kaddr
104to user-space address
105.Fa uaddr .
106The number of bytes actually copied, including the terminating null,
107is returned in
108.Fa *done ,
109if
110.Fa done
111is not
112.Dv NULL .
113.It Fn kcopy
114Copies
115.Fa len
116bytes of data from the kernel-space address
117.Fa kfaddr
118to the kernel-space address
119.Fa kdaddr .
120.El
121.Sh RETURN VALUES
122The
123.Nm
124functions return 0 on success or
125.Er EFAULT
126if a bad address is encountered.
127In addition, the
128.Fn copyinstr
129and
130.Fn copyoutstr
131functions return
132.Er ENAMETOOLONG
133if the string is longer than
134.Fa len
135bytes.
136.\" .Sh SEE ALSO
137