[PATCH] profile: fix uaccess handling

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/profile.c b/kernel/profile.c
index f940b462eec9..15b012df4ff1 100644
--- a/kernel/profile.c
+++ b/kernel/profile.c
@@ -442,7 +442,8 @@ read_profile(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
         read = 0;
 
         while (p < sizeof(unsigned int) && count > 0) {
-                put_user(*((char *)(&sample_step)+p),buf);
+                if (put_user(*((char *)(&sample_step)+p),buf))
+                        return -EFAULT;
                 buf++; p++; count--; read++;
         }
         pnt = (char *)prof_buffer + p - sizeof(atomic_t);