Re: [patch 2/3] xen/privcmd: return -EFAULT on error

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On Sep 8, 2012, at 5:57 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> __copy_to_user() returns the number of bytes remaining to be copied but
> we want to return a negative error code here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/privcmd.c b/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
> index fdff8f9..0ce006a 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
> @@ -393,8 +393,11 @@ static long privcmd_ioctl_mmap_batch(void __user *udata, int version)
> 		state.err      = err_array;
> 		ret = traverse_pages(m.num, sizeof(xen_pfn_t),
> 				     &pagelist, mmap_return_errors_v1, &state);
> -	} else if (version == 2)
> +	} else if (version == 2) {
> 		ret = __copy_to_user(m.err, err_array, m.num * sizeof(int));
> +		if (ret)
> +			ret = -EFAULT;
> +	}
> 
> 	/* If we have not had any EFAULT-like global errors then set the global
> 	 * error to -ENOENT if necessary. */

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