[patch] IB/hfi1: fix copy_to/from_user() error handling

Doug Ledford dledford at redhat.com
Fri Sep 18 15:50:10 UTC 2015


On 09/15/2015 06:35 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> copy_to/from_user() returns the number of bytes which we were not able
> to copy.  It doesn't return an error code.
> 
> Also a couple places had a printk() on error and I removed that because
> people can take advantage of it to fill /var/log/messages with spam.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>

Thanks, applied.


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