Re: [patch 1/2] ptp: return -EFAULT on copy_to_user() errors

[Richard Cochran]

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:53:12PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> copy_to_user() returns the number of bytes remaining, but we want a
> negative error code here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c b/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c
> index a8d03ae..93fa22d 100644
> --- a/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c
> +++ b/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c
> @@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ long ptp_ioctl(struct posix_clock *pc, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
>  		caps.n_ext_ts = ptp->info->n_ext_ts;
>  		caps.n_per_out = ptp->info->n_per_out;
>  		caps.pps = ptp->info->pps;
> -		err = copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &caps, sizeof(caps));
> +		if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &caps, sizeof(caps)))
> +			err = -EFAULT;

Yes, right, and thanks for the extra review.

Thomas, can you please queue these two patches for 3.0-rc2?

(Or should John Stultz handle this sort of thing?)

Thanks,
Richard
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