From: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
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Subject: [PATCH v4 3/4] KVM: s390: avoid kvm_s390_handle_pv() error overwrite
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:43:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260322054309.898214-4-surenb@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260322054309.898214-1-surenb@google.com>
If kvm_s390_handle_pv() call fails its error code gets recorded but
execution proceeds as if the call was successful. If the next call to
copy_to_user() fails then the original error is overwritten.
The follow-up patch adds fatal signal checks during VMA walk, which
makes it possible for kvm_s390_handle_pv() to return EINTR error.
Without this fix any error including EINTR can be overwritten and
original error will be lost.
Change error handling for kvm_s390_handle_pv() to alter normal flow
once failure happens. This is consistent with how kvm_arch_vm_ioctl
handles errors for other ioctl commands.
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
---
arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
index 3eb60aa932ec..ddad08c0926f 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
@@ -2947,6 +2947,8 @@ int kvm_arch_vm_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int ioctl, unsigned long arg)
}
/* must be called without kvm->lock */
r = kvm_s390_handle_pv(kvm, &args);
+ if (r)
+ break;
if (copy_to_user(argp, &args, sizeof(args))) {
r = -EFAULT;
break;
--
2.53.0.1018.g2bb0e51243-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-22 5:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-22 5:43 [PATCH v4 0/4] Use killable vma write locking in most places Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-03-22 5:43 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] mm/vma: cleanup error handling path in vma_expand() Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-03-22 7:49 ` Barry Song
2026-03-22 5:43 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] mm: replace vma_start_write() with vma_start_write_killable() Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-03-23 17:49 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-23 19:22 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-03-22 5:43 ` Suren Baghdasaryan [this message]
2026-03-23 4:41 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] KVM: s390: avoid kvm_s390_handle_pv() error overwrite Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-03-23 17:53 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-23 18:48 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-03-22 5:43 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] mm: use vma_start_write_killable() in process_vma_walk_lock() Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-03-23 18:04 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-23 19:29 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-03-22 16:17 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] Use killable vma write locking in most places Andrew Morton
2026-03-23 4:29 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-03-24 15:59 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
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