linux-kernel - [PATCH 5/5] rsxx: Correcting return values during failure scenarios.

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Message-ID: <20130814213713.GF26562@oc6784271780.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:37:13 -0500
From:	"Philip J. Kelleher" <pjk1939@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	axboe@...nel.dk
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, brking@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] rsxx: Correcting return values during failure scenarios.

From: Philip J Kelleher <pjk1939@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

The rsxx driver is returning the wrong values during
copy_from_user and copy_to_user. It, also, is not
setting ENOMEM during a failed workqueue allocation.

Signed-off-by: Philip J Kelleher <pjk1939@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
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diff -uprN -X linux-block-vanilla/Documentation/dontdiff linux-block-vanilla/drivers/block/rsxx/core.c linux-block/drivers/block/rsxx/core.c
--- linux-block-vanilla/drivers/block/rsxx/core.c	2013-08-12 15:32:49.468858233 -0500
+++ linux-block/drivers/block/rsxx/core.c	2013-08-12 15:33:03.600861005 -0500
@@ -199,9 +199,8 @@ static ssize_t rsxx_cram_read(struct fil
 	if (st)
 		return st;
 
-	st = copy_to_user(ubuf, buf, cnt);
-	if (st)
-		return st;
+	if (copy_to_user(ubuf, buf, cnt))
+		return -EFAULT;
 
 	info->offset += cnt;
 
@@ -222,9 +221,8 @@ static ssize_t rsxx_cram_write(struct fi
 	if (!buf)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	st = copy_from_user(buf, ubuf, cnt);
-	if (st)
-		return st;
+	if (copy_from_user(buf, ubuf, cnt))
+		return -EFAULT;
 
 	info->f_pos = (u32)*ppos + info->offset;
 
@@ -942,6 +940,7 @@ static int rsxx_pci_probe(struct pci_dev
 	card->event_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue(DRIVER_NAME"_event");
 	if (!card->event_wq) {
 		dev_err(CARD_TO_DEV(card), "Failed card event setup.\n");
+		st = -ENOMEM;
 		goto failed_event_handler;
 	}
 

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