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* [patch] KVM: s390: return -EFAULT if copy_from_user() fails
@ 2014-05-03 20:18 Dan Carpenter
  2014-05-05  7:30 ` Christian Borntraeger
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2014-05-03 20:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christian Borntraeger
  Cc: Cornelia Huck, linux390, Gleb Natapov, Paolo Bonzini,
	Martin Schwidefsky, Heiko Carstens, linux-s390, kvm,
	kernel-janitors

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 <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
---
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) {

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