linux-kernel - [patch] compat: return -EFAULT on error in waitid()

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Date:	Fri, 4 Jan 2013 21:54:55 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] compat: return -EFAULT on error in waitid()

The copy_to_user() call returns the number of bytes remaining but we
want to return -EFAULT on error.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
---
Only needed in linux-next.

diff --git a/kernel/compat.c b/kernel/compat.c
index de6f324..19971d8 100644
--- a/kernel/compat.c
+++ b/kernel/compat.c
@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE5(waitid,
 		else
 			ret = put_compat_rusage(&ru, uru);
 		if (ret)
-			return ret;
+			return -EFAULT;
 	}
 
 	BUG_ON(info.si_code & __SI_MASK);
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