Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Mar 2022 14:45:19 +0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 3/4] ipmi: ssif_bmc: Return -EFAULT if copy_from_user() fails | From | Quan Nguyen <> |
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Added Dan as I have missed Dan's email address in the first place. My apologize, - Quan
On 11/03/2022 13:58, Wolfram Sang wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 06:41:18PM +0700, Quan Nguyen wrote: >> From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> >> >> The copy_from_user() function returns the number of bytes remaining to >> be copied but we should return -EFAULT here. >> >> Fixes: 501c25b59508 ("ipmi: ssif_bmc: Add SSIF BMC driver") >> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> >> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> >> Signed-off-by: Quan Nguyen <quan@os.amperecomputing.com> > > It is nice that you want to keep this patch seperate to give Dan > credits, but I still think it should be merged into patch 1, so the > initial driver is as flawless as it can be. You could give Dan still > credits by mentioning him in the commit message IMO. Dan, would you be > fine with this? > >> v6: >> + New add in v6, thanks Dan for the patch [Dan] >> >> drivers/char/ipmi/ssif_bmc.c | 5 ++--- >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ssif_bmc.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ssif_bmc.c >> index 62db97773654..91ac2cae756e 100644 >> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ssif_bmc.c >> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ssif_bmc.c >> @@ -87,9 +87,8 @@ static ssize_t ssif_bmc_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t >> if (count > sizeof(struct ssif_msg)) >> return -EINVAL; >> >> - ret = copy_from_user(&msg, buf, count); >> - if (ret) >> - return ret; >> + if (copy_from_user(&msg, buf, count)) >> + return -EFAULT; >> >> if (!msg.len || count < ssif_msg_len(&msg)) >> return -EINVAL; >> -- >> 2.35.1 >>
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