linux-next/include/linux/uio.h

/*
 *	Berkeley style UIO structures	-	Alan Cox 1994.
 *
 *		This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 *		modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 *		as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
 *		2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 */
#ifndef __LINUX_UIO_H
#define __LINUX_UIO_H

#include <uapi/linux/uio.h>


struct kvec {
	void *iov_base; /* and that should *never* hold a userland pointer */
	size_t iov_len;
};

/*
 * Total number of bytes covered by an iovec.
 *
 * NOTE that it is not safe to use this function until all the iovec's
 * segment lengths have been validated.  Because the individual lengths can
 * overflow a size_t when added together.
 */
static inline size_t iov_length(const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs)
{
	unsigned long seg;
	size_t ret = 0;

	for (seg = 0; seg < nr_segs; seg++)
		ret += iov[seg].iov_len;
	return ret;
}

unsigned long iov_shorten(struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs, size_t to);
#endif