From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:39716 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1163598AbeE1KuJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2018 06:50:09 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Edward Cree , "David S. Miller" , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.14 200/496] net: ethtool: dont ignore return from driver get_fecparam method Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 11:59:45 +0200 Message-Id: <20180528100328.363581006@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180528100319.498712256@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180528100319.498712256@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Edward Cree [ Upstream commit a6d50512b4d86ecd9f5952525e454583be1c3b14 ] If ethtool_ops->get_fecparam returns an error, pass that error on to the user, rather than ignoring it. Fixes: 1a5f3da20bd9 ("net: ethtool: add support for forward error correction modes") Signed-off-by: Edward Cree Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/core/ethtool.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/core/ethtool.c +++ b/net/core/ethtool.c @@ -2505,11 +2505,14 @@ static int set_phy_tunable(struct net_de static int ethtool_get_fecparam(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr) { struct ethtool_fecparam fecparam = { ETHTOOL_GFECPARAM }; + int rc; if (!dev->ethtool_ops->get_fecparam) return -EOPNOTSUPP; - dev->ethtool_ops->get_fecparam(dev, &fecparam); + rc = dev->ethtool_ops->get_fecparam(dev, &fecparam); + if (rc) + return rc; if (copy_to_user(useraddr, &fecparam, sizeof(fecparam))) return -EFAULT;