[PATCH 2/7] tracing: do not return EFAULT if read copied anything

[Steven Rostedt]

From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>

Impact: fix trace read to conform to standards

Andrew Morton, Theodore Tso and H. Peter Anvin brought to my attention
that a userspace read should not return -EFAULT if it succeeded in
copying anything. It should only return -EFAULT if it failed to copy
at all.

This patch modifies the check of copy_from_user and updates the return
code appropriately.

I also used H. Peter Anvin's short cut rule to just test ret == count.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c |   14 ++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index ab5cbca..57155dc 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -346,6 +346,9 @@ ssize_t trace_seq_to_user(struct trace_seq *s, char __user *ubuf, size_t cnt)
 	int len;
 	int ret;
 
+	if (!cnt)
+		return 0;
+
 	if (s->len <= s->readpos)
 		return -EBUSY;
 
@@ -353,9 +356,11 @@ ssize_t trace_seq_to_user(struct trace_seq *s, char __user *ubuf, size_t cnt)
 	if (cnt > len)
 		cnt = len;
 	ret = copy_to_user(ubuf, s->buffer + s->readpos, cnt);
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret == cnt)
 		return -EFAULT;
 
+	cnt -= ret;
+
 	s->readpos += len;
 	return cnt;
 }
@@ -3049,6 +3054,9 @@ tracing_buffers_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
 	ssize_t ret;
 	size_t size;
 
+	if (!count)
+		return 0;
+
 	/* Do we have previous read data to read? */
 	if (info->read < PAGE_SIZE)
 		goto read;
@@ -3073,8 +3081,10 @@ read:
 		size = count;
 
 	ret = copy_to_user(ubuf, info->spare + info->read, size);
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret == size)
 		return -EFAULT;
+	size -= ret;
+
 	*ppos += size;
 	info->read += size;
 
-- 
1.6.1.3

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