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Subject[patch] 2.4.0-test9-pre7: ppdev fixes
Hi Linus,

Here is a patch that fixes some missing copy_to/from_user things, as
well as fixing the pp_write logic.

Tim.
*/

Index: linux/drivers/char/ppdev.c
diff -u linux/drivers/char/ppdev.c:1.1.1.23 linux/drivers/char/ppdev.c:1.29
--- linux/drivers/char/ppdev.c:1.1.1.23 Fri Jul 14 11:05:38 2000
+++ linux/drivers/char/ppdev.c Wed Aug 30 12:09:00 2000
@@ -39,7 +39,13 @@
* read/write read or write in current IEEE 1284 protocol
* select wait for interrupt (in readfds)
*
+ * Changes:
* Added SETTIME/GETTIME ioctl, Fred Barnes 1999.
+ *
+ * Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> 2000/08/25
+ * - On error, copy_from_user and copy_to_user do not return -EFAULT,
+ * They return the positive number of bytes *not* copied due to address
+ * space errors.
*/

#include <linux/module.h>
@@ -179,7 +185,7 @@

wrote = parport_write (pp->pdev->port, kbuffer, n);

- if (wrote < 0) {
+ if (wrote <= 0) {
if (!bytes_written)
bytes_written = wrote;
break;
@@ -369,19 +375,19 @@

case PPRSTATUS:
reg = parport_read_status (port);
- return copy_to_user ((unsigned char *) arg, &reg,
- sizeof (reg));
-
+ if (copy_to_user ((unsigned char *) arg, &reg, sizeof (reg)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ return 0;
case PPRDATA:
reg = parport_read_data (port);
- return copy_to_user ((unsigned char *) arg, &reg,
- sizeof (reg));
-
+ if (copy_to_user ((unsigned char *) arg, &reg, sizeof (reg)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ return 0;
case PPRCONTROL:
reg = parport_read_control (port);
- return copy_to_user ((unsigned char *) arg, &reg,
- sizeof (reg));
-
+ if (copy_to_user ((unsigned char *) arg, &reg, sizeof (reg)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ return 0;
case PPYIELD:
parport_yield_blocking (pp->pdev);
return 0;
-
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