linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/6] uprobes: copy_insn() should not return -ENOMEM if __copy

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:50:13 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Anton Arapov <anton@...hat.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/6] uprobes: copy_insn() should not return -ENOMEM if
	__copy_insn() fails

copy_insn() returns -ENOMEM if the first __copy_insn() fails,
it should return the correct error code.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/events/uprobes.c |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index bb61248..9bb5571 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -639,10 +639,10 @@ static int copy_insn(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct file *filp)
 
 	/* Instruction at the page-boundary; copy bytes in second page */
 	if (nbytes < bytes) {
-		if (__copy_insn(mapping, filp, uprobe->arch.insn + nbytes,
-				bytes - nbytes, uprobe->offset + nbytes))
-			return -ENOMEM;
-
+		int err = __copy_insn(mapping, filp, uprobe->arch.insn + nbytes,
+				bytes - nbytes, uprobe->offset + nbytes);
+		if (err)
+			return err;
 		bytes = nbytes;
 	}
 	return __copy_insn(mapping, filp, uprobe->arch.insn, bytes, uprobe->offset);
-- 
1.5.5.1


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