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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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