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From: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	Derek Kiernan <derek.kiernan@xilinx.com>,
	Dragan Cvetic <dragan.cvetic@xilinx.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] misc: xilinx_sdfec: Return -EFAULT if copy_from_user() fails
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 10:16:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <35a942ef-d8e9-0b81-932f-93ef9e552d50@xilinx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190821070702.GB26957@mwanda>

On 21. 08. 19 9:07, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The copy_from_user() funciton returns the number of bytes remaining to

typo here.

> be copied but we want to return -EFAULT to the user.
> 
> Fixes: 20ec628e8007 ("misc: xilinx_sdfec: Add ability to configure LDPC")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> ---
>  drivers/misc/xilinx_sdfec.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/xilinx_sdfec.c b/drivers/misc/xilinx_sdfec.c
> index dc1b8b412712..813b82c59360 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/xilinx_sdfec.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/xilinx_sdfec.c
> @@ -651,9 +651,10 @@ static int xsdfec_add_ldpc(struct xsdfec_dev *xsdfec, void __user *arg)
>  	if (!ldpc)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  
> -	ret = copy_from_user(ldpc, arg, sizeof(*ldpc));
> -	if (ret)
> +	if (copy_from_user(ldpc, arg, sizeof(*ldpc))) {
> +		ret = -EFAULT;
>  		goto err_out;
> +	}
>  
>  	if (xsdfec->config.code == XSDFEC_TURBO_CODE) {
>  		ret = -EIO;
> 

When typo fixed feel free to add my
Reviewed-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>

Thanks,
Michal

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-22  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-21  7:06 [PATCH 1/4] misc: xilinx_sdfec: Fix a couple small information leaks Dan Carpenter
2019-08-21  7:07 ` [PATCH 2/4] misc: xilinx_sdfec: Return -EFAULT if copy_from_user() fails Dan Carpenter
2019-08-22  8:16   ` Michal Simek [this message]
2019-08-22  8:31   ` [PATCH 2/4 v2] " Dan Carpenter
2019-08-22 17:47   ` [PATCH 2/4] " Dragan Cvetic
2019-08-21  7:09 ` [PATCH 3/4] misc: xilinx_sdfec: Prevent a divide by zero in xsdfec_reg0_write() Dan Carpenter
2019-08-22  8:18   ` Michal Simek
2019-08-23  8:23   ` Dragan Cvetic
2019-08-21  7:11 ` [PATCH 4/4] misc: xilinx_sdfec: Prevent integer overflow in xsdfec_table_write() Dan Carpenter
2019-08-22  8:27   ` Michal Simek
2019-08-22 17:55   ` Dragan Cvetic
2019-08-22  8:14 ` [PATCH 1/4] misc: xilinx_sdfec: Fix a couple small information leaks Michal Simek
2019-08-22  8:28   ` Dan Carpenter
2019-08-22  8:49     ` Michal Simek
2019-08-22 17:47 ` Dragan Cvetic

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