[PATCH] ISDN: fix drivers, by handling errors thrown by ->readstat()
commit97b601402b1378411467946272ad88b03c3e78ba
authorJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:10:39 +0000 (17 00:10 -0700)
committerChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Sat, 4 Nov 2006 01:33:49 +0000 (3 17:33 -0800)
tree478edf89d150ad953e3d605b5bd101dceec49aaa
parentee8a3629526eb8cacaee6bc2ba8ef95d5a0027a6
[PATCH] ISDN: fix drivers, by handling errors thrown by ->readstat()

This is a particularly ugly on-failure bug, possibly security, since the
lack of error handling here is covering up another class of bug: failure to
handle copy_to_user() return values.

The I4L API function ->readstat() returns an integer, and by looking at
several existing driver implementations, it is clear that a negative return
value was meant to indicate an error.

Given that several drivers already return a negative value indicating an
errno-style error, the current code would blindly accept that [negative]
value as a valid amount of bytes read.  Obvious damage ensues.

Correcting ->readstat() handling to properly notice errors fixes the
existing code to work correctly on error, and enables future patches to
more easily indicate errors during operation.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_common.c