Re: [PATCH] posix-timers: Fix clock_adjtime to return timex dataon success

[Richard Cochran]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 06:12:02PM +0100, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> Copy the modified timex data back to the user also with positive return
> values. This fixes reading of the CLOCK_REALTIME timex data when the
> clock is in a non-zero state.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@xxxxxxxxx>

(Adding John Stultz on CC)

> ---
>  kernel/posix-timers.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c
> index 69185ae..10349d5 100644
> --- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
> +++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
> @@ -997,7 +997,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(clock_adjtime, const clockid_t, which_clock,
>  
>  	err = kc->clock_adj(which_clock, &ktx);
>  
> -	if (!err && copy_to_user(utx, &ktx, sizeof(ktx)))
> +	if (err >= 0 && copy_to_user(utx, &ktx, sizeof(ktx)))
>  		return -EFAULT;
>  
>  	return err;
> -- 
> 1.7.11.7
> 
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