Propagate the error code returned by memdup_user() instead of a hard coded -EFAULT. Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> --- This patch is speculative. The whole call chains have not been checked to see if there was no path explicitly expecting a -EFAULT. --- fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c index 2968cf604e3b..78b8cd9651d5 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c @@ -808,7 +808,7 @@ __cld_pipe_inprogress_downcall(const struct cld_msg_v2 __user *cmsg, return -EFAULT; name.data = memdup_user(&ci->cc_name.cn_id, namelen); if (IS_ERR(name.data)) - return -EFAULT; + return PTR_ERR(name.data); name.len = namelen; get_user(princhashlen, &ci->cc_princhash.cp_len); if (princhashlen > 0) { @@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ __cld_pipe_inprogress_downcall(const struct cld_msg_v2 __user *cmsg, princhashlen); if (IS_ERR(princhash.data)) { kfree(name.data); - return -EFAULT; + return PTR_ERR(princhash.data); } princhash.len = princhashlen; } else @@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ __cld_pipe_inprogress_downcall(const struct cld_msg_v2 __user *cmsg, return -EFAULT; name.data = memdup_user(&cnm->cn_id, namelen); if (IS_ERR(name.data)) - return -EFAULT; + return PTR_ERR(name.data); name.len = namelen; } if (name.len > 5 && memcmp(name.data, "hash:", 5) == 0) { -- 2.34.1