From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] dma/coh901318: fix copy_to_user error path
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:38:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010221938.12591.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101022192953.1f67b10a@absol.kitzblitz>
On Friday 22 October 2010 19:29:53 Nicolas Kaiser wrote:
> If copy_to_user fails, the assigned error code instantly gets
> overwritten, and the failure apparently ignored. Moreover,
> shouldn't the error code be -EFAULT instead of -EINVAL?
Looks good, but it would be even better to just use
simple_read_from_buffer in this function, which takes care of
a lot the other complexities as well.
Arnd
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>,
Per Friden <per.friden@stericsson.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma/coh901318: fix copy_to_user error path
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:38:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010221938.12591.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101022192953.1f67b10a@absol.kitzblitz>
On Friday 22 October 2010 19:29:53 Nicolas Kaiser wrote:
> If copy_to_user fails, the assigned error code instantly gets
> overwritten, and the failure apparently ignored. Moreover,
> shouldn't the error code be -EFAULT instead of -EINVAL?
Looks good, but it would be even better to just use
simple_read_from_buffer in this function, which takes care of
a lot the other complexities as well.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-22 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-22 17:29 [PATCH] dma/coh901318: fix copy_to_user error path Nicolas Kaiser
2010-10-22 17:29 ` Nicolas Kaiser
2010-10-22 17:38 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-10-22 17:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-22 18:30 ` [PATCH] dma/coh901318: use simple_read_from_buffer Nicolas Kaiser
2010-10-22 18:30 ` Nicolas Kaiser
2010-10-22 19:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-22 19:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
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