diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 4d2c4295a..68ce1afa8 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2001-10-22  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* miscfuncs.cc (__check_invalid_read_ptr_errno): Return error, if any.
+
 2001-10-21  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@redhat.com>
 
 	* resource.cc (fill_rusage): Perform paranoid zero structure passed to
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/miscfuncs.cc b/winsup/cygwin/miscfuncs.cc
index 63b05d975..ecc5bd203 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/miscfuncs.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/miscfuncs.cc
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ int __stdcall
 __check_invalid_read_ptr_errno (const void *s, unsigned sz)
 {
   if (!s || IsBadReadPtr ((void *) s, sz))
-    set_errno (EFAULT);
+    return set_errno (EFAULT);
 
   return 0;
 }