linux-kernel - [patch] fbmem: return -EFAULT on copy_to

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Date:	Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:05:29 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>
Cc:	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
	linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] fbmem: return -EFAULT on copy_to_user() failure

copy_to_user() returns the number of bytes remaining to be copied.
put_user() returns -EFAULT on error.

This function ORs a bunch of stuff together and returns jumbled non-zero
values on error.  It should return -EFAULT.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbmem.c b/drivers/video/fbmem.c
index 098bfc6..9217be3 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbmem.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbmem.c
@@ -1305,7 +1305,9 @@ static int do_fscreeninfo_to_user(struct fb_fix_screeninfo *fix,
 	err |= copy_to_user(fix32->reserved, fix->reserved,
 			    sizeof(fix->reserved));
 
-	return err;
+	if (err)
+		return -EFAULT;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static int fb_get_fscreeninfo(struct fb_info *info, unsigned int cmd,
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