From: Dan Carpenter Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 19:53:12 +0000 (+0300) Subject: ptp: Return -EFAULT on copy_to_user() errors X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e23ef227d10878ff3f323a1dfed10205a1825b71;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git ptp: Return -EFAULT on copy_to_user() errors copy_to_user() returns the number of bytes remaining, but we want a negative error code in ptp_ioctl. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Acked-by: Richard Cochran Signed-off-by: John Stultz --- diff --git a/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c b/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c index a8d03aeb4051..93fa22de5977 100644 --- a/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c +++ b/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c @@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ long ptp_ioctl(struct posix_clock *pc, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) caps.n_ext_ts = ptp->info->n_ext_ts; caps.n_per_out = ptp->info->n_per_out; caps.pps = ptp->info->pps; - err = copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &caps, sizeof(caps)); + if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &caps, sizeof(caps))) + err = -EFAULT; break; case PTP_EXTTS_REQUEST: