Re: [PATCH] coda: return -EFAULT if copy fails

[Su Hui]

On 2023/5/16 01:15, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> Le 15/05/2023 à 08:19, Su Hui a écrit :
> > The copy_to/from_user() functions should return -EFAULT instead of 
> > -EINVAL.
>
> Hi,
>
> just for my understanding, why?
>
> Even if not perfect:
>    git grep -A1 copy_from_user | grep EINV | wc -l
>    15
>
>    git grep -A1 copy_to_user | grep EINV | wc -l
>    12
Hi,

maybe return -EFAULT is more better than -EINVAL.

    git grep -A1 "copy_from_user" | grep EFAULT | wc -l

     1985

    git grep -A1 "copy_to_user" | grep EFAULT | wc -l

    1871

Su Hui

> CJ
>
> > Signed-off-by: Su Hui <suhui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   fs/coda/upcall.c | 2 +-
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/coda/upcall.c b/fs/coda/upcall.c
> > index cd6a3721f6f6..1517dc3bd592 100644
> > --- a/fs/coda/upcall.c
> > +++ b/fs/coda/upcall.c
> > @@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ int venus_pioctl(struct super_block *sb, struct 
> > CodaFid *fid,
> >           /* get the data out of user space */
> >       if (copy_from_user((char *)inp + (long)inp->coda_ioctl.data,
> >                  data->vi.in, data->vi.in_size)) {
> > -        error = -EINVAL;
> > +        error = -EFAULT;
> >               goto exit;
> >       }