netdev - Re: [PATCH -net] tls: return -EFAULT if copy_to

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Message-ID: <20170623103612.ycduw43oyi6hmtp3@mwanda>
Date:   Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:36:12 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Dave Watson <davejwatson@...com>,
        Aviad Yehezkel <aviadye@...lanox.com>,
        Ilya Lesokhin <ilyal@...lanox.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -net] tls: return -EFAULT if copy_to_user() fails

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 03:31:44AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 13:15 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > The copy_to_user() function returns the number of bytes remaining but we
> > want to return -EFAULT here.
> 
> because?
> 

Rhetorical questions don't work over email.  Are you honestly confused
by this patch?

regards,
dan carpenter