1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/helper.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/helper.c
index 8a4c9e47326c..97bed16bf4c7 100644
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/helper.c
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/helper.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ static int helper_child(void *arg)
         errval = execvp_noalloc(data->buf, argv[0], argv);
         printk("helper_child - execvp of '%s' failed - errno = %d\n", argv[0],
                -errval);
-        os_write_file(data->fd, &errval, sizeof(errval));
+        write(data->fd, &errval, sizeof(errval));
         kill(os_getpid(), SIGKILL);
         return 0;
 }
@@ -92,11 +92,12 @@ int run_helper(void (*pre_exec)(void *), void *pre_data, char **argv,
          * Read the errno value from the child, if the exec failed, or get 0 if
          * the exec succeeded because the pipe fd was set as close-on-exec.
          */
-        n = os_read_file(fds[0], &ret, sizeof(ret));
+        n = read(fds[0], &ret, sizeof(ret));
         if (n == 0) {
                 ret = pid;
         } else {
                 if (n < 0) {
+                        n = -errno;
                         printk("run_helper : read on pipe failed, ret = %d\n",
                                -n);
                         ret = n;