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authorDan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>2011-05-29 22:53:12 +0300
committerJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>2011-06-01 19:29:08 -0700
commite23ef227d10878ff3f323a1dfed10205a1825b71 (patch)
tree175dedf039bee62658960c270643f5cbc019cdb1 /drivers/ptp
parentRevert "mm: fail GFP_DMA allocations when ZONE_DMA is not configured" (diff)
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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 <error27@gmail.com> Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ptp')
-rw-r--r--drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
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: