netdev - [PATCH] net/decnet: fix -EFAULT error that is not getting returned

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Date:   Wed,  4 Dec 2019 15:11:44 +0000
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        linux-decnet-user@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net/decnet: fix -EFAULT error that is not getting returned

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Currently an -EFAULT error on a memcpy_to_msg is not being returned
because it is being overwritten when variable rv is being re-assigned
to the number of bytes copied after breaking out of a loop. Fix this
by instead assigning the error to variable copied so that this error
code propegated to rv and hence is returned at the end of the function.

[ This bug was was introduced before the current git history ]

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 net/decnet/af_decnet.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/decnet/af_decnet.c b/net/decnet/af_decnet.c
index e19a92a62e14..e23d9f219597 100644
--- a/net/decnet/af_decnet.c
+++ b/net/decnet/af_decnet.c
@@ -1759,7 +1759,7 @@ static int dn_recvmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t size,
 			chunk = size - copied;
 
 		if (memcpy_to_msg(msg, skb->data, chunk)) {
-			rv = -EFAULT;
+			copied = -EFAULT;
 			break;
 		}
 		copied += chunk;
-- 
2.24.0