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+/*
+ *	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);
+
+int memcpy_fromiovec(unsigned char *kdata, struct iovec *iov, int len);
+int memcpy_toiovec(struct iovec *iov, unsigned char *kdata, int len);
+#endif