[PATCH] soc: aspeed: xdma: Return -EFAULT if copy_from_user() fails
Eddie James
eajames at linux.ibm.com
Wed Sep 30 23:38:31 AEST 2020
On 9/30/20 4:03 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The copy_from_user() function returns the number of bytes remaining
> which we weren't able to copy. This should return -EFAULT to the
> user.
Thanks,
Reviewed-by: Eddie James <eajames at linux.ibm.com>
>
> Fixes: 86609baa4217 ("soc: aspeed: xdma: Add user interface")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
> ---
> drivers/soc/aspeed/aspeed-xdma.c | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/soc/aspeed/aspeed-xdma.c b/drivers/soc/aspeed/aspeed-xdma.c
> index 91b51a3de8df..e6b4744bda64 100644
> --- a/drivers/soc/aspeed/aspeed-xdma.c
> +++ b/drivers/soc/aspeed/aspeed-xdma.c
> @@ -569,9 +569,8 @@ static ssize_t aspeed_xdma_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
> if (len != sizeof(op))
> return -EINVAL;
>
> - rc = copy_from_user(&op, buf, len);
> - if (rc)
> - return rc;
> + if (copy_from_user(&op, buf, len))
> + return -EFAULT;
>
> if (!op.len || op.len > client->size ||
> op.direction > ASPEED_XDMA_DIRECTION_UPSTREAM)
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