Re: [PATCH v6 3/4] ipmi: ssif_bmc: Return -EFAULT if copy_from_user() fails

[Dan Carpenter]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 02:45:19PM +0700, Quan Nguyen wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Quan Nguyen <quan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > 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?

Yes, that's no problem.  Thanks!

regards,
dan carpenter