From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 20:18:11 +0000 Subject: [patch] KVM: s390: return -EFAULT if copy_from_user() fails Message-Id: <20140503201811.GA32753@mwanda> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Cornelia Huck , linux390@de.ibm.com, Gleb Natapov , Paolo Bonzini , Martin Schwidefsky , Heiko Carstens , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org When copy_from_user() fails, this code returns the number of bytes remaining instead of a negative error code. The positive number is returned to the user but otherwise it is harmless. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter --- I am not able to compile this. diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/guestdbg.c b/arch/s390/kvm/guestdbg.c index 757ccef..3e8d409 100644 --- a/arch/s390/kvm/guestdbg.c +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/guestdbg.c @@ -223,9 +223,10 @@ int kvm_s390_import_bp_data(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, goto error; } - ret = copy_from_user(bp_data, dbg->arch.hw_bp, size); - if (ret) + if (copy_from_user(bp_data, dbg->arch.hw_bp, size)) { + ret = -EFAULT; goto error; + } for (i = 0; i < dbg->arch.nr_hw_bp; i++) { switch (bp_data[i].type) {