diff --git a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
index ac0a181e5ceb..22317817d1f5 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
@@ -552,10 +552,10 @@ static struct aa_loaddata *aa_get_data_from_compressed(const char __user *userbu
 	*compressed_data = kvmalloc(buffer_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!*compressed_data)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-	error = copy_from_user(*compressed_data, userbuf, buffer_size);
-	if (error)
+	if (copy_from_user(*compressed_data, userbuf, buffer_size)) {
+		error = -EFAULT;
 		goto fail;
-
+	}
 	error = zstd_get_frame_header(&header, *compressed_data, buffer_size);
 	if (error || header.frameContentSize == ZSTD_CONTENTSIZE_UNKNOWN ||
 	    header.frameContentSize == ZSTD_CONTENTSIZE_ERROR) {