Re: [PATCH] iommufd: Fix return value of iommufd_fault_fops_write()

[Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>]

On 3/30/26 11:07 AM, Zhenzhong Duan wrote:
> copy_from_user() may return number of bytes failed to copy, we should
> not pass over this number to user space to cheat that write() succeed.
> Instead, -EFAULT should be returned.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 07838f7fd529 ("iommufd: Add iommufd fault object")
> Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>   drivers/iommu/iommufd/eventq.c | 5 +++--
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/eventq.c b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/eventq.c
> index f1e686b3a265..710eef0b6004 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/eventq.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/eventq.c
> @@ -187,9 +187,10 @@ static ssize_t iommufd_fault_fops_write(struct file *filep, const char __user *b
>   
>   	mutex_lock(&fault->mutex);
>   	while (count > done) {
> -		rc = copy_from_user(&response, buf + done, response_size);
> -		if (rc)
> +		if (copy_from_user(&response, buf + done, response_size)) {
> +			rc = -EFAULT;
>   			break;
> +		}
>   
>   		static_assert((int)IOMMUFD_PAGE_RESP_SUCCESS ==
>   			      (int)IOMMU_PAGE_RESP_SUCCESS);

Good catch.

Reviewed-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>

Thanks.
Shuai