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Message-Id: <1275684477-20172-10-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 13:47:56 -0700
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 10/11] vt_ioctl: return -EFAULT on copy_from_user errors
From: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
copy_from_user() returns the number of bytes remaining but we want to
return a negative error code here.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
---
drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c b/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c
index 6aa1028..cb19dbc 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c
@@ -1303,7 +1303,9 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * file,
if (!perm)
goto eperm;
ret = copy_from_user(&ui, up, sizeof(struct unimapinit));
- if (!ret)
+ if (ret)
+ ret = -EFAULT;
+ else
con_clear_unimap(vc, &ui);
break;
}
--
1.7.1
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