net: Fix wrong interpretation of some copy_to_user() results.
authorPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:49:48 +0000 (01:49 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:49:48 +0000 (01:49 -0700)
I found some places, that erroneously return the value obtained from
the copy_to_user() call: if some amount of bytes were not able to get
to the user (this is what this one returns) the proper behavior is to
return the -EFAULT error, not that number itself.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/can/raw.c
net/dccp/probe.c
net/tipc/socket.c

index ead50c7c0d40f54e8b05d7b1c9e04cdef5b92fb2..201cbfc6b9ece724b3cda9427f27d976534567c7 100644 (file)
@@ -573,7 +573,8 @@ static int raw_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
                        int fsize = ro->count * sizeof(struct can_filter);
                        if (len > fsize)
                                len = fsize;
-                       err = copy_to_user(optval, ro->filter, len);
+                       if (copy_to_user(optval, ro->filter, len))
+                               err = -EFAULT;
                } else
                        len = 0;
                release_sock(sk);
index 6e1df62bd7c9167dc6e123b20c5af79ce30537c3..0bcdc92502794867b7254bc338044555b6493245 100644 (file)
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ static ssize_t dccpprobe_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
                goto out_free;
 
        cnt = kfifo_get(dccpw.fifo, tbuf, len);
-       error = copy_to_user(buf, tbuf, cnt);
+       error = copy_to_user(buf, tbuf, cnt) ? -EFAULT : 0;
 
 out_free:
        vfree(tbuf);
index 05853159536a03b984708c400808dcf6e26fcb77..230f9ca2ad6b361dd4e78e6a2f1247334e9b9d22 100644 (file)
@@ -1756,8 +1756,8 @@ static int getsockopt(struct socket *sock,
        else if (len < sizeof(value)) {
                res = -EINVAL;
        }
-       else if ((res = copy_to_user(ov, &value, sizeof(value)))) {
-               /* couldn't return value */
+       else if (copy_to_user(ov, &value, sizeof(value))) {
+               res = -EFAULT;
        }
        else {
                res = put_user(sizeof(value), ol);