[patch] compat: return -EFAULT on error in waitid()

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The copy_to_user() call returns the number of bytes remaining but we
want to return -EFAULT on error.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Only needed in linux-next.

diff --git a/kernel/compat.c b/kernel/compat.c
index de6f324..19971d8 100644
--- a/kernel/compat.c
+++ b/kernel/compat.c
@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE5(waitid,
 		else
 			ret = put_compat_rusage(&ru, uru);
 		if (ret)
-			return ret;
+			return -EFAULT;
 	}
 
 	BUG_ON(info.si_code & __SI_MASK);
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