hppfs: hppfs_read_file() may return -ERROR

hppfs_read_file() may return (ssize_t) -ENOMEM, or -EFAULT.  When stored
in size_t 'count', these errors will not be noticed, a large value will be
added to *ppos.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/hppfs/hppfs.c b/fs/hppfs/hppfs.c
index b278f7f52024..a5089a6dd67a 100644
--- a/fs/hppfs/hppfs.c
+++ b/fs/hppfs/hppfs.c
@@ -280,7 +280,12 @@ static ssize_t hppfs_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count,
                                "errno = %d\n", err);
                         return err;
                 }
-                count = hppfs_read_file(hppfs->host_fd, buf, count);
+                err = hppfs_read_file(hppfs->host_fd, buf, count);
+                if (err < 0) {
+                        printk(KERN_ERR "hppfs_read: read failed: %d\n", err);
+                        return err;
+                }
+                count = err;
                 if (count > 0)
                         *ppos += count;
         }