netdev - Re: [patch] isdn/kcapi: return -EFAULT on copy_from

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Date:	Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:29:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	error27@...il.com
Cc:	isdn@...ux-pingi.de, jan.kiszka@....de, tilman@...p.cc,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] isdn/kcapi: return -EFAULT on copy_from_user errors

From: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 11:56:13 +0200

> copy_from_user() returns the number of bytes remaining but we should
> return -EFAULT here.  The error code gets returned to the user.  Both 
> old_capi_manufacturer() and capi20_manufacturer() had other places
> that already returned -EFAULT so this won't break anything.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>

Applied.
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