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* [patch 1/2] ptp: return -EFAULT on copy_to_user() errors
@ 2011-05-29 19:53 Dan Carpenter
  2011-05-30  6:12 ` Richard Cochran
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2011-05-29 19:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Richard Cochran
  Cc: David S. Miller, John Stultz, Arnd Bergmann, open list,
	kernel-janitors

copy_to_user() returns the number of bytes remaining, but we want a
negative error code here.

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

diff --git a/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c b/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c
index a8d03ae..93fa22d 100644
--- a/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c
+++ b/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ long ptp_ioctl(struct posix_clock *pc, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 		caps.n_ext_ts = ptp->info->n_ext_ts;
 		caps.n_per_out = ptp->info->n_per_out;
 		caps.pps = ptp->info->pps;
-		err = copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &caps, sizeof(caps));
+		if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &caps, sizeof(caps)))
+			err = -EFAULT;
 		break;
 
 	case PTP_EXTTS_REQUEST:

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