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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Baptiste Reynal <b.reynal@virtualopensystems.com>,
	Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>,
	Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com>,
	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.5] vfio: fix ioctl error handling
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 16:10:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160228160958-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160228072322.25154cf4@ul30vt.home>

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 07:23:22AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:34:43 +0200
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Calling return copy_to_user(...) in an ioctl will not
> > do the right thing if there's a pagefault:
> > copy_to_user returns the number of bytes not copied
> > in this case.
> > 
> > Fix up vfio to do
> > 	if (copy_to_user(...))
> > 		return -EFAULT;
> > 
> > everywhere.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c                  | 9 ++++++---
> >  drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_common.c | 9 ++++++---
> >  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c              | 6 ++++--
> >  3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
> > index 2760a7b..27a727a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
> > @@ -446,7 +446,8 @@ static long vfio_pci_ioctl(void *device_data,
> >  		info.num_regions = VFIO_PCI_NUM_REGIONS;
> >  		info.num_irqs = VFIO_PCI_NUM_IRQS;
> >  
> > -		return copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &info, minsz);
> > +		if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &info, minsz))
> > +			return -EFAULT;
> 
> Ok, but where do we return 0 on success now?

Ouch. Thanks for pointing this out. Fixed in v2.

-- 
MST

      reply	other threads:[~2016-02-28 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-25 11:34 [PATCH for-4.5] vfio: fix ioctl error handling Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-02-26 13:47 ` Dan Carpenter
2016-02-28 13:23 ` Alex Williamson
2016-02-28 14:10   ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]

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