Re: [patch v2] fcntl: return -EFAULT if copy_to_user fails

[Jens Axboe]

On 2010-06-03 12:35, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> copy_to_user() returns the number of bytes remaining, but we want to
> return -EFAULT.
> 	ret = fcntl(fd, F_SETOWN_EX, NULL);
> With the original code ret would be 8 here.
> 
> V2: Takuya Yoshikawa pointed out a similar issue in f_getown_ex()

Pretty basic bug, how long has this been there?

Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Jens Axboe

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