From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] vhost-net: fix to check the return value of copy_to/from_user() correctly
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 13:48:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100527104845.GB7278@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100527190158.4587a2db.yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:01:58PM +0900, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
> copy_to/from_user() returns the number of bytes that could not be copied.
>
> So we need to check if it is not zero, and in that case, we should return
> the error number -EFAULT rather than directly return the return value from
> copy_to/from_user().
>
> Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Thanks, applied.
> ---
> drivers/vhost/net.c | 14 +++++++-------
> 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> index aa88911..0f41c91 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> @@ -593,17 +593,17 @@ static long vhost_net_ioctl(struct file *f, unsigned int ioctl,
> int r;
> switch (ioctl) {
> case VHOST_NET_SET_BACKEND:
> - r = copy_from_user(&backend, argp, sizeof backend);
> - if (r < 0)
> - return r;
> + if (copy_from_user(&backend, argp, sizeof backend))
> + return -EFAULT;
> return vhost_net_set_backend(n, backend.index, backend.fd);
> case VHOST_GET_FEATURES:
> features = VHOST_FEATURES;
> - return copy_to_user(featurep, &features, sizeof features);
> + if (copy_to_user(featurep, &features, sizeof features))
> + return -EFAULT;
> + return 0;
> case VHOST_SET_FEATURES:
> - r = copy_from_user(&features, featurep, sizeof features);
> - if (r < 0)
> - return r;
> + if (copy_from_user(&features, featurep, sizeof features))
> + return -EFAULT;
> if (features & ~VHOST_FEATURES)
> return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> return vhost_net_set_features(n, features);
> --
> 1.7.0.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-27 10:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-27 9:58 [PATCH 1/3] vhost: fix to check the return value of copy_to/from_user() correctly Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-27 10:01 ` [PATCH 2/3] vhost-net: " Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-27 10:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2010-05-27 10:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] vhost: fix the memory leak which will happen when memory_access_ok fails Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-27 10:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-05-27 10:48 ` [PATCH 1/3] vhost: fix to check the return value of copy_to/from_user() correctly Michael S. Tsirkin
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