Merge branch 'mcpm' of git://git.linaro.org/people/nico/linux into devel-stable

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c
index fe40fde29111..d487985dd0ea 100644
--- a/fs/compat.c
+++ b/fs/compat.c
@@ -558,6 +558,10 @@ ssize_t compat_rw_copy_check_uvector(int type,
 	}
 	*ret_pointer = iov;
 
+	ret = -EFAULT;
+	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, uvector, nr_segs*sizeof(*uvector)))
+		goto out;
+
 	/*
 	 * Single unix specification:
 	 * We should -EINVAL if an element length is not >= 0 and fitting an
@@ -1080,17 +1084,12 @@ static ssize_t compat_do_readv_writev(int type, struct file *file,
 	if (!file->f_op)
 		goto out;
 
-	ret = -EFAULT;
-	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, uvector, nr_segs*sizeof(*uvector)))
-		goto out;
-
-	tot_len = compat_rw_copy_check_uvector(type, uvector, nr_segs,
+	ret = compat_rw_copy_check_uvector(type, uvector, nr_segs,
 					       UIO_FASTIOV, iovstack, &iov);
-	if (tot_len == 0) {
-		ret = 0;
+	if (ret <= 0)
 		goto out;
-	}
 
+	tot_len = ret;
 	ret = rw_verify_area(type, file, pos, tot_len);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto out;