regset: Return -EFAULT, not -EIO, on host-side memory fault
authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Fri, 2 Mar 2012 18:43:49 +0000 (10:43 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 2 Mar 2012 19:38:15 +0000 (11:38 -0800)
commit5189fa19a4b2b4c3bec37c3a019d446148827717
tree968ba4d4dea7375cfedaf5f1e22c1885a8ea003b
parentc8e252586f8d5de906385d8cf6385fee289a825e
regset: Return -EFAULT, not -EIO, on host-side memory fault

There is only one error code to return for a bad user-space buffer
pointer passed to a system call in the same address space as the
system call is executed, and that is EFAULT.  Furthermore, the
low-level access routines, which catch most of the faults, return
EFAULT already.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/regset.h