From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>,
linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>,
Moshe Lazer <moshel@mellanox.com>,
Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Subject: Re: [patch -next] mlx5: return -EFAULT instead of -EPERM
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:34:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51DD46AE.9030200@mellanox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130710105859.GD31232@longonot.mountain>
On 10/07/2013 13:58, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> For copy_to/from_user() failure, the correct error code is -EFAULT not
> -EPERM.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
> index e2daa8f..bd41df9 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
> @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ static ssize_t size_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf,
> int c;
>
> if (copy_from_user(lbuf, buf, sizeof(lbuf)))
> - return -EPERM;
> + return -EFAULT;
>
> c = order2idx(dev, ent->order);
> lbuf[sizeof(lbuf) - 1] = 0;
> @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ static ssize_t size_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count,
> return err;
>
> if (copy_to_user(buf, lbuf, err))
> - return -EPERM;
> + return -EFAULT;
>
> *pos += err;
>
> @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ static ssize_t limit_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf,
> int c;
>
> if (copy_from_user(lbuf, buf, sizeof(lbuf)))
> - return -EPERM;
> + return -EFAULT;
>
> c = order2idx(dev, ent->order);
> lbuf[sizeof(lbuf) - 1] = 0;
> @@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ static ssize_t limit_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count,
> return err;
>
> if (copy_to_user(buf, lbuf, err))
> - return -EPERM;
> + return -EFAULT;
>
> *pos += err;
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c
> index c1c0eef..205753a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c
> @@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ static ssize_t dbg_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf,
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> if (copy_from_user(lbuf, buf, sizeof(lbuf)))
> - return -EPERM;
> + return -EFAULT;
>
> lbuf[sizeof(lbuf) - 1] = 0;
>
> @@ -889,7 +889,7 @@ static ssize_t data_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf,
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> if (copy_from_user(ptr, buf, count)) {
> - err = -EPERM;
> + err = -EFAULT;
> goto out;
> }
> dbg->in_msg = ptr;
> @@ -919,7 +919,7 @@ static ssize_t data_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count,
>
> copy = min_t(int, count, dbg->outlen);
> if (copy_to_user(buf, dbg->out_msg, copy))
> - return -EPERM;
> + return -EFAULT;
>
> *pos += copy;
>
> @@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ static ssize_t outlen_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count,
> return err;
>
> if (copy_to_user(buf, &outlen, err))
> - return -EPERM;
> + return -EFAULT;
>
> *pos += err;
>
> @@ -974,7 +974,7 @@ static ssize_t outlen_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf,
> dbg->outlen = 0;
>
> if (copy_from_user(outlen_str, buf, count))
> - return -EPERM;
> + return -EFAULT;
>
> outlen_str[7] = 0;
>
As Eli is still OOO (coming back soon...)
Acked-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-10 11:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-10 10:58 [patch -next] mlx5: return -EFAULT instead of -EPERM Dan Carpenter
2013-07-10 11:34 ` Or Gerlitz [this message]
2013-07-17 16:20 ` Eli Cohen
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