netdev - [patch] isdn: return -EFAULT if copy_from

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Date:	Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:40:09 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	Karsten Keil <isdn@...ux-pingi.de>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] isdn: return -EFAULT if copy_from_user() fails

We should be returning -EFAULT here.

Mostly this patch is to silence a smatch warning.  The upper levels
of this driver turn all non-zero return values from isar_load_firmware()
into 1.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>

diff --git a/drivers/isdn/hisax/isar.c b/drivers/isdn/hisax/isar.c
index 2e72227..9cd4829 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/hisax/isar.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/hisax/isar.c
@@ -212,9 +212,9 @@ isar_load_firmware(struct IsdnCardState *cs, u_char __user *buf)
 	cs->debug &= ~(L1_DEB_HSCX | L1_DEB_HSCX_FIFO);
 #endif
 	
-	if ((ret = copy_from_user(&size, p, sizeof(int)))) {
+	if (copy_from_user(&size, p, sizeof(int))) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR"isar_load_firmware copy_from_user ret %d\n", ret);
-		return ret;
+		return -EFAULT;
 	}
 	p += sizeof(int);
 	printk(KERN_DEBUG"isar_load_firmware size: %d\n", size);
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