Hi Michael,

> Calling return copy_to_user(...) in an ioctl will not do the right thing
> if there's a pagefault: copy_to_user returns the number of bytes not
> copied in this case.
> 
> Fix up watchdog/rc32434_wdt to do
>       return copy_to_user(...)) ?  -EFAULT : 0;
> 
> instead.
> 
> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> Untested.
> 
>  drivers/watchdog/rc32434_wdt.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/rc32434_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/rc32434_wdt.c
> index 71e78ef..3a75f3b 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/rc32434_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/rc32434_wdt.c
> @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ static long rc32434_wdt_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned 
> int cmd,
>                       return -EINVAL;
>               /* Fall through */
>       case WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT:
> -             return copy_to_user(argp, &timeout, sizeof(int));
> +             return copy_to_user(argp, &timeout, sizeof(int)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
>       default:
>               return -ENOTTY;
>       }
> -- 
> MST

Patch has been added to linux-watchdog-next.

Kind regards,
Wim.

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