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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-18 12:59:32 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-10-12 15:17:39 +0200
commit9f482807a6bd7e2aa1ed0d8cfc48463ec4ca3568 (patch)
tree0050a865ffc49e71e9787ad1012d39a4c3c5d8b4 /arch
parent620f2efcdc5c7a2db68da41bc3df3cf9a718024e (diff)
x86, fpu: check __clear_user() return value
fix warning: arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c: In function ‘save_i387_xstate’: arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c:98: warning: ignoring return value of ‘__clear_user’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result check the return value and act on it. We should not be ignoring faults at this point. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c b/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c
index 2f98323716d..9abac8a9d82 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c
@@ -95,7 +95,9 @@ int save_i387_xstate(void __user *buf)
* Start with clearing the user buffer. This will present a
* clean context for the bytes not touched by the fxsave/xsave.
*/
- __clear_user(buf, sig_xstate_size);
+ err = __clear_user(buf, sig_xstate_size);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
if (task_thread_info(tsk)->status & TS_XSAVE)
err = xsave_user(buf);