Re: [patch] fbmem: return -EFAULT on copy_to_user() failure

From: Tomi Valkeinen
Date: Wed Jun 26 2013 - 09:04:21 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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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