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Message-ID: <51CAE6CA.8000909@ti.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 Jun 2013 16:04:10 +0300
From:	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
CC:	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	<linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] fbmem: return -EFAULT on copy_to_user() failure

On 18/06/13 10:05, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 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,

I've added this to fbdev-3.11 branch.

 Tomi




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