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* [patch] isdn: return -EFAULT if copy_from_user() fails
@ 2010-12-10 12:40 ` Dan Carpenter
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2010-12-10 12:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Karsten Keil; +Cc: David S. Miller, netdev, kernel-janitors

We should be returning -EFAULT here.

Mostly this patch is to silence a smatch warning.  The upper levels
of this driver turn all non-zero return values from isar_load_firmware()
into 1.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

diff --git a/drivers/isdn/hisax/isar.c b/drivers/isdn/hisax/isar.c
index 2e72227..9cd4829 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/hisax/isar.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/hisax/isar.c
@@ -212,9 +212,9 @@ isar_load_firmware(struct IsdnCardState *cs, u_char __user *buf)
 	cs->debug &= ~(L1_DEB_HSCX | L1_DEB_HSCX_FIFO);
 #endif
 	
-	if ((ret = copy_from_user(&size, p, sizeof(int)))) {
+	if (copy_from_user(&size, p, sizeof(int))) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR"isar_load_firmware copy_from_user ret %d\n", ret);
-		return ret;
+		return -EFAULT;
 	}
 	p += sizeof(int);
 	printk(KERN_DEBUG"isar_load_firmware size: %d\n", size);

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2010-12-10 12:40 ` Dan Carpenter
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2010-12-11  0:16   ` David Miller
2010-12-11  0:41 ` Nicolas Kaiser
2010-12-11  0:41   ` Nicolas Kaiser
2010-12-11  0:47   ` David Miller
2010-12-11  0:47     ` David Miller
2010-12-11  0:50     ` David Miller
2010-12-11  0:50       ` David Miller
2010-12-11  0:52       ` David Miller
2010-12-11  0:52         ` David Miller
2010-12-11  5:07         ` Dan Carpenter
2010-12-11  5:07           ` Dan Carpenter

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