linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] Rework KERN

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Date:	Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:55:00 +0200
From:	Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Rework KERN_<LEVEL>

On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 14:28 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> devkmsg_writev() does weird and wonderful things with
> facilities/levels.  That function incorrectly returns "success" when
> copy_from_user() faults, btw.

Oh. Better?

Thanks,
Kay


From: Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
Subject: kmsg: /dev/kmsg - properly return possible copy_from_user() failure

Reported-By: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org
---
 printk.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 32462d2..6bdacab 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -365,8 +365,10 @@ static ssize_t devkmsg_writev(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iv,
 
 	line = buf;
 	for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
-		if (copy_from_user(line, iv[i].iov_base, iv[i].iov_len))
+		if (copy_from_user(line, iv[i].iov_base, iv[i].iov_len)) {
+			ret = -EFAULT;
 			goto out;
+		}
 		line += iv[i].iov_len;
 	}
 


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