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Subject[patch] vt_ioctl: return -EFAULT on copy_from_user errors
copy_from_user() returns the number of bytes remaining but we want to
return a negative error code here.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

diff --git a/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c b/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c
index 6aa1028..cb19dbc 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c
@@ -1303,7 +1303,9 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * file,
if (!perm)
goto eperm;
ret = copy_from_user(&ui, up, sizeof(struct unimapinit));
- if (!ret)
+ if (ret)
+ ret = -EFAULT;
+ else
con_clear_unimap(vc, &ui);
break;
}

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