[PATCH 3/6] ip2: return -EFAULT on copy_to_user errors

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Aug 24 2010 - 00:24:23 EST


From: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>

copy_to_user() returns the number of bytes remaining but we want to return
a negative error code on errors.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.c b/drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.c
index 8fa041e..d4b71e8 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.c
@@ -2930,6 +2930,8 @@ ip2_ipl_ioctl (struct file *pFile, UINT cmd, ULONG arg )
if ( pCh )
{
rc = copy_to_user(argp, pCh, sizeof(i2ChanStr));
+ if (rc)
+ rc = -EFAULT;
} else {
rc = -ENODEV;
}
--
1.7.2

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