Hi Dan,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpen...@oracle.com]
> Sent: Wednesday 21 August 2019 08:07
> To: Derek Kiernan <dkier...@xilinx.com>; Dragan Cvetic <drag...@xilinx.com>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>; Greg Kroah-Hartman 
> <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>; Michal Simek <mich...@xilinx.com>;
> linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; 
> kernel-janit...@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [PATCH 2/4] misc: xilinx_sdfec: Return -EFAULT if copy_from_user() 
> fails
> 
> The copy_from_user() funciton returns the number of bytes remaining to
> 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.carpen...@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;
> --
> 2.20.1

Reviewed-by: Dragan Cvetic <dragan.cve...@xilinx.com>

Thanks,
Dragan

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