linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 295/342] bio: return EINTR if copying to user space got interrupted

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Date:	Tue, 01 Mar 2016 23:55:22 +0000
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	<stable@...r.kernel.org>, Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 295/342] bio: return EINTR if copying to user space got interrupted

4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>

commit 2d99b55d378c996b9692a0c93dd25f4ed5d58934 upstream.

Commit 35dc248383bbab0a7203fca4d722875bc81ef091 introduced a check for
current->mm to see if we have a user space context and only copies data
if we do. Now if an IO gets interrupted by a signal data isn't copied
into user space any more (as we don't have a user space context) but
user space isn't notified about it.

This patch modifies the behaviour to return -EINTR from bio_uncopy_user()
to notify userland that a signal has interrupted the syscall, otherwise
it could lead to a situation where the caller may get a buffer with
no data returned.

This can be reproduced by issuing SG_IO ioctl()s in one thread while
constantly sending signals to it.

Fixes: 35dc248 [SCSI] sg: Fix user memory corruption when SG_IO is interrupted by a signal
Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 block/bio.c |    7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -1090,9 +1090,12 @@ int bio_uncopy_user(struct bio *bio)
 	if (!bio_flagged(bio, BIO_NULL_MAPPED)) {
 		/*
 		 * if we're in a workqueue, the request is orphaned, so
-		 * don't copy into a random user address space, just free.
+		 * don't copy into a random user address space, just free
+		 * and return -EINTR so user space doesn't expect any data.
 		 */
-		if (current->mm && bio_data_dir(bio) == READ)
+		if (!current->mm)
+			ret = -EINTR;
+		else if (bio_data_dir(bio) == READ)
 			ret = bio_copy_to_iter(bio, bmd->iter);
 		if (bmd->is_our_pages)
 			bio_free_pages(bio);