[PATCH] dma/coh901318: fix copy_to_user error path
Nicolas Kaiser
nikai at nikai.net
Fri Oct 22 13:29:53 EDT 2010
If copy_to_user fails, the assigned error code instantly gets
overwritten, and the failure apparently ignored. Moreover,
shouldn't the error code be -EFAULT instead of -EINVAL?
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai at nikai.net>
---
drivers/dma/coh901318.c | 6 ++++--
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/dma/coh901318.c b/drivers/dma/coh901318.c
index ae2b871..eac8867 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/coh901318.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/coh901318.c
@@ -140,8 +140,10 @@ static int coh901318_debugfs_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
if (count > dev_size - *f_pos)
count = dev_size - *f_pos;
- if (copy_to_user(buf, dev_buf + *f_pos, count))
- ret = -EINVAL;
+ if (copy_to_user(buf, dev_buf + *f_pos, count)) {
+ ret = -EFAULT;
+ goto out;
+ }
ret = count;
*f_pos += count;
--
1.7.2.2
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