From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:47:21 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] isdn: return -EFAULT if copy_from_user() fails Message-Id: <20101210.164721.85429801.davem@davemloft.net> List-Id: References: <20101210124009.GC10623@bicker> <20101211014154.3157588b@absol.kitzblitz> In-Reply-To: <20101211014154.3157588b@absol.kitzblitz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: nikai@nikai.net Cc: error27@gmail.com, isdn@linux-pingi.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org From: Nicolas Kaiser Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 01:41:54 +0100 > Ahem, we're printing this return value: > > * Dan Carpenter : >> - 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; I'll fix this, thanks.