libfs: make simple_read_from_buffer conventional

Impact: have simple_read_from_buffer conform to standards

It was brought to my attention by Andrew Morton, Theodore Tso, and H.
Peter Anvin that a read from userspace should only return -EFAULT if
nothing was actually read.

Looking at the simple_read_from_buffer I noticed that this function does
not conform to that rule.  This patch fixes that function.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplification suggested by hpa]
[hpa@zytor.com: fix count==0 handling]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index dcec3d3ea64f944cd51d36f35b4150279c5659f2..662a28e4f6670e0cb8261c310e686c7353d7edb7 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -527,14 +527,18 @@ ssize_t simple_read_from_buffer(void __user *to, size_t count, loff_t *ppos,
                                const void *from, size_t available)
 {
        loff_t pos = *ppos;
+       size_t ret;
+
        if (pos < 0)
                return -EINVAL;
-       if (pos >= available)
+       if (pos >= available || !count)
                return 0;
        if (count > available - pos)
                count = available - pos;
-       if (copy_to_user(to, from + pos, count))
+       ret = copy_to_user(to, from + pos, count);
+       if (ret == count)
                return -EFAULT;
+       count -= ret;
        *ppos = pos + count;
        return count;
 }