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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -net] tls: return -EFAULT if copy_to_user() fails
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:36:12 +0300
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On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 03:31:44AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 13:15 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > The copy_to_user() function returns the number of bytes remaining but we
> > want to return -EFAULT here.
> 
> because?
> 

Rhetorical questions don't work over email.  Are you honestly confused
by this patch?

regards,
dan carpenter