linux-kernel - [PATCH -mm] c/r: prctl: Add missing minus in error code

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Date:	Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:08:51 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH -mm] c/r: prctl: Add missing minus in error code

The error code should be a negative value.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
---
 Hi Andrew, could you please check if this patch
 is valid for -mm tree and it is not some left-over
 dangling in my local tree (found this typo while trying
 to describe error codes for man-page).

 kernel/sys.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.git/kernel/sys.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/kernel/sys.c
+++ linux-2.6.git/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1881,7 +1881,7 @@ static int prctl_set_mm(int opt, unsigne
 		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 
 		if (copy_from_user(user_auxv, (const void __user *)addr, arg4))
-			return EFAULT;
+			return -EFAULT;
 
 		/* Make sure the last entry is always AT_NULL */
 		user_auxv[AT_VECTOR_SIZE - 2] = 0;
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