Re: [PATCH 4/5] [media] v4l: fix copying ioctl results on failure

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Hi Tomasz,

On Friday 26 August 2011 15:06:06 Tomasz Stanislawski wrote:
> This patch fix the handling of data passed to V4L2 ioctls.  The content of
> the structures is not copied if the ioctl fails.  It blocks ability to
> obtain any information about occurred error other then errno code. This
> patch fix this issue.

Does the V4L2 spec say anything on this topic ? We might have applications 
that rely on the ioctl argument structure not being touched when a failure 
occurs.

> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Stanislawski <t.stanislaws@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c |    2 --
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c
> b/drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c index 543405b..9f54114 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c
> @@ -2490,8 +2490,6 @@ video_usercopy(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
> unsigned long arg, err = -EFAULT;
>  		goto out_array_args;
>  	}
> -	if (err < 0)
> -		goto out;
> 
>  out_array_args:
>  	/*  Copy results into user buffer  */

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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