From: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
To: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Gerd Bayer <gbayer@linux.ibm.com>,
Tobias Schumacher <ts@linux.ibm.com>,
Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com>,
Ramesh Errabolu <ramesh@linux.ibm.com>,
Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.ibm.com>,
Julian Ruess <julianr@linux.ibm.com>,
Farhan Ali <alifm@linux.ibm.com>,
Simona Vetter <simona.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>,
Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>,
Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>,
Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390/pci: Fix s390_pci_mmio_write syscall error return without MIO
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:16:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ttimf2q@ub.hpns> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260722-b4-syscall_mmio_ret_fix_upstream-v1-1-6de516b33001@linux.ibm.com>
On Wed, Jul 22, 2026 at 03:08:34PM +0200, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> On a machine without PCI memory-I/O (MIO) support or when running with
> pci=nomio the s390 specific PCI MMIO write syscall checks if the MMIO
> cookie is above ZPCI_IOMAP_ADDR_BASE as a sanity check before even
> trying to perform the MMIO. If this check fails the return value was
> left unchanged and thus 0 from prior operations falsely indicating
> success. This could potentially confuse user-space into falsely
> believing the MMIO, on a mapping not valid for MMIO was successful.
>
> Fix this by setting the return value to -EFAULT prior to the check
> following the same pattern as elsewhere in the same function.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: Julian Ruess <julianr@linux.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Farhan Ali <alifm@linux.ibm.com>
> Fixes: a67a88b0b8de ("s390/pci: remove races against pte updates")
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> arch/s390/pci/pci_mmio.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Applied, thank you!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-23 9:16 UTC|newest]
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2026-07-22 13:08 [PATCH] s390/pci: Fix s390_pci_mmio_write syscall error return without MIO Niklas Schnelle
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