netdev - Re: [PATCH][NET]: Fix wrong interpretation of some copy_to

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Date:	Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:48:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xemul@...nvz.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][NET]: Fix wrong interpretation of some copy_to_user()
 results.

From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:41:55 +0400

> I found some places, that erroneously return the value obtained from
> the copy_to_user() call: if some amount of bytes were not able to get
> to the user (this is what this one returns) the proper behavior is to
> return the -EFAULT error, not that number itself.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>

I gues you're not a real kernel programmer unless you've made this
mistake at least once :-)  It kind of prove this is a bad interface,
since it's so easy to use incorrectly.

This was already caught in a tcp_probe fix I applied earlier today,
so I removed that part.

The rest is applied and I'll queue for -stable, thanks Pavel.
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