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authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>2010-01-06 05:41:48 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-01-06 05:41:48 +0100
commit6df1c176994fab993f3112e3e4145a7d2bae64d0 (patch)
treebfbe02788e9e75be4e24285aa49539463a3539f3
parentsparc64: Fix Niagara2 perf event handling. (diff)
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sparc: copy_from_user() should not return -EFAULT
From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Callers of copy_from_user() expect it to return the number of bytes it could not copy. In no case it is supposed to return -EFAULT. In case of a detected buffer overflow just return the requested length. In addition one could think of a memset that would clear the size of the target object. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--arch/sparc/include/asm/uaccess_32.h2
-rw-r--r--arch/sparc/include/asm/uaccess_64.h2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/uaccess_32.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/uaccess_32.h
index 489d2ba92bcb..25f1d10155e8 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/uaccess_32.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/uaccess_32.h
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ static inline unsigned long copy_from_user(void *to, const void __user *from, un
if (unlikely(sz != -1 && sz < n)) {
copy_from_user_overflow();
- return -EFAULT;
+ return n;
}
if (n && __access_ok((unsigned long) from, n))
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/uaccess_64.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/uaccess_64.h
index dbc141660994..2406788bfe5f 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/uaccess_64.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/uaccess_64.h
@@ -221,8 +221,8 @@ extern unsigned long copy_from_user_fixup(void *to, const void __user *from,
static inline unsigned long __must_check
copy_from_user(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long size)
{
- unsigned long ret = (unsigned long) -EFAULT;
int sz = __compiletime_object_size(to);
+ unsigned long ret = size;
if (likely(sz == -1 || sz >= size)) {
ret = ___copy_from_user(to, from, size);