[PATCH] arc: kernel: Return -EFAULT if copy_to_user() fails

Vineet Gupta vgupta at synopsys.com
Tue Mar 2 19:01:11 GMT 2021


On 3/1/21 4:05 AM, Wang Qing wrote:
> The copy_to_user() function returns the number of bytes remaining to be
> copied, but we want to return -EFAULT if the copy doesn't complete.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Qing <wangqing at vivo.com>

Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta at synopsys.com>

Do you want me to pick this up via ARC tree ?

Thx,
-Vineet

> ---
>   arch/arc/kernel/signal.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arc/kernel/signal.c
> index a78d8f7..fdbe06c
> --- a/arch/arc/kernel/signal.c
> +++ b/arch/arc/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ stash_usr_regs(struct rt_sigframe __user *sf, struct pt_regs *regs,
>   			     sizeof(sf->uc.uc_mcontext.regs.scratch));
>   	err |= __copy_to_user(&sf->uc.uc_sigmask, set, sizeof(sigset_t));
>   
> -	return err;
> +	return err ? -EFAULT : 0;
>   }
>   
>   static int restore_usr_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, struct rt_sigframe __user *sf)
> @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static int restore_usr_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, struct rt_sigframe __user *sf)
>   				&(sf->uc.uc_mcontext.regs.scratch),
>   				sizeof(sf->uc.uc_mcontext.regs.scratch));
>   	if (err)
> -		return err;
> +		return -EFAULT;
>   
>   	set_current_blocked(&set);
>   	regs->bta	= uregs.scratch.bta;
> 




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