Re: [PATCH -net] tls: return -EFAULT if copy_to_user() fails

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On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 03:58:35AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> getsockopt says:
> 
> For getsockopt(), optlen is a value-result argument, initially containing the size
> of the buffer pointed to by optval, and modified on return to indicate the actual
> size of the value returned

In the original code, it's not returning the "actual size of the value
returned". It's returning a smaller or equal value... The man page is
correct that this is how some getsockopts work, of course.  But here
-EFAULT is expected.

regards,
dan carpenter

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