copy_to/from_user() returns the number of bytes remaining to be copied.
It never returns a negative value. The correct return code is -EFAULT
and not -EIO.
All the callers check for non-zero returns so that's Ok, but the return
code is passed to the user so we should fix this.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index 474a847..ab2258b 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -151,8 +151,10 @@ static int do_kimage_alloc(struct kimage **rimage, unsigned long entry,
image->nr_segments = nr_segments;
segment_bytes = nr_segments * sizeof(*segments);
result = copy_from_user(image->segment, segments, segment_bytes);
- if (result)
+ if (result) {
+ result = -EFAULT;
goto out;
+ }
/*
* Verify we have good destination addresses. The caller is
@@ -827,7 +829,7 @@ static int kimage_load_normal_segment(struct kimage *image,
result = copy_from_user(ptr, buf, uchunk);
kunmap(page);
if (result) {
- result = (result < 0) ? result : -EIO;
+ result = -EFAULT;
goto out;
}
ubytes -= uchunk;
@@ -882,7 +884,7 @@ static int kimage_load_crash_segment(struct kimage *image,
kexec_flush_icache_page(page);
kunmap(page);
if (result) {
- result = (result < 0) ? result : -EIO;
+ result = -EFAULT;
goto out;
}
ubytes -= uchunk;
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