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authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2009-09-18 13:05:42 -0700
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2009-09-24 07:47:22 -0400
commit14be27460e4722d7135de3c46d043b4fc4382247 (patch)
treed7026e0e43c1f048f2a0f31a54beb93b91b5fb89 /fs/libfs.c
parent94a8d5caba74211ec76dac80fc6e2d5c391530df (diff)
downloadlinux-14be27460e4722d7135de3c46d043b4fc4382247.tar.gz
libfs: make simple_read_from_buffer conventional
Impact: have simple_read_from_buffer conform to standards

It was brought to my attention by Andrew Morton, Theodore Tso, and H.
Peter Anvin that a read from userspace should only return -EFAULT if
nothing was actually read.

Looking at the simple_read_from_buffer I noticed that this function does
not conform to that rule.  This patch fixes that function.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplification suggested by hpa]
[hpa@zytor.com: fix count==0 handling]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/libfs.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/libfs.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index dcec3d3ea64f..662a28e4f667 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -527,14 +527,18 @@ ssize_t simple_read_from_buffer(void __user *to, size_t count, loff_t *ppos,
 				const void *from, size_t available)
 {
 	loff_t pos = *ppos;
+	size_t ret;
+
 	if (pos < 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
-	if (pos >= available)
+	if (pos >= available || !count)
 		return 0;
 	if (count > available - pos)
 		count = available - pos;
-	if (copy_to_user(to, from + pos, count))
+	ret = copy_to_user(to, from + pos, count);
+	if (ret == count)
 		return -EFAULT;
+	count -= ret;
 	*ppos = pos + count;
 	return count;
 }