Seems that a trailing ';' has slipped onto the end of the access_ok check here, such that we will always return -EFAULT. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- arch/mips/kernel/irixsig.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/irixsig.c b/arch/mips/kernel/irixsig.c index 6980deb..28b2a8f 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/irixsig.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/irixsig.c @@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ asmlinkage int irix_getcontext(struct pt_regs *regs) current->comm, current->pid, ctx); #endif - if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, ctx, sizeof(*ctx))); + if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, ctx, sizeof(*ctx))) return -EFAULT; error = __put_user(current->thread.irix_oldctx, &ctx->link);