linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm/mincore: Return EFAULT when passed an invalid address.

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Date:	Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:11:12 -0800
From:	Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@...cle.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/mincore: Return EFAULT when passed an invalid address.

 	The locking fix to sys_mincore in commit
2f77d107050abc14bc393b34bdb7b91cf670c250 returns -ENOMEM when given a
bad userspace address.  It should return -EFAULT.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@...cle.com>

diff --git a/mm/mincore.c b/mm/mincore.c
index 8aca6f7..4af963c 100644
--- a/mm/mincore.c
+++ b/mm/mincore.c
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_mincore(unsigned long start, size_t len,
 
 	/* ..and we need to be passed a valid user-space range */
 	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, (void __user *) start, len))
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		return -EFAULT;
 
 	/* This also avoids any overflows on PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN */
 	pages = len >> PAGE_SHIFT;


-- 

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Joel Becker
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Oracle
E-mail: joel.becker@...cle.com
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