Re: [patch] KVM: s390: return -EFAULT if copy_from_user() fails

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On 03/05/14 22:18, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> When copy_from_user() fails, this code returns the number of bytes
> remaining instead of a negative error code.  The positive number is
> returned to the user but otherwise it is harmless.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks. Applied to KVM/s390 fix queue.


> ---
> I am not able to compile this.
> 
> diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/guestdbg.c b/arch/s390/kvm/guestdbg.c
> index 757ccef..3e8d409 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/kvm/guestdbg.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/guestdbg.c
> @@ -223,9 +223,10 @@ int kvm_s390_import_bp_data(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  		goto error;
>  	}
> 
> -	ret = copy_from_user(bp_data, dbg->arch.hw_bp, size);
> -	if (ret)
> +	if (copy_from_user(bp_data, dbg->arch.hw_bp, size)) {
> +		ret = -EFAULT;
>  		goto error;
> +	}
> 
>  	for (i = 0; i < dbg->arch.nr_hw_bp; i++) {
>  		switch (bp_data[i].type) {
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