linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arc: kernel: Return -EFAULT if copy_to

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Message-ID: <bed81c02-97e0-9905-0dd3-6064a54691ff@synopsys.com>
Date:   Tue, 2 Mar 2021 11:01:11 -0800
From:   Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
To:     Wang Qing <wangqing@...o.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arc: kernel: Return -EFAULT if copy_to_user() fails

On 3/1/21 4:05 AM, Wang Qing wrote:
> The copy_to_user() function returns the number of bytes remaining to be
> copied, but we want to return -EFAULT if the copy doesn't complete.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Qing <wangqing@...o.com>

Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>

Do you want me to pick this up via ARC tree ?

Thx,
-Vineet

> ---
>   arch/arc/kernel/signal.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arc/kernel/signal.c
> index a78d8f7..fdbe06c
> --- a/arch/arc/kernel/signal.c
> +++ b/arch/arc/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ stash_usr_regs(struct rt_sigframe __user *sf, struct pt_regs *regs,
>   			     sizeof(sf->uc.uc_mcontext.regs.scratch));
>   	err |= __copy_to_user(&sf->uc.uc_sigmask, set, sizeof(sigset_t));
>   
> -	return err;
> +	return err ? -EFAULT : 0;
>   }
>   
>   static int restore_usr_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, struct rt_sigframe __user *sf)
> @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static int restore_usr_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, struct rt_sigframe __user *sf)
>   				&(sf->uc.uc_mcontext.regs.scratch),
>   				sizeof(sf->uc.uc_mcontext.regs.scratch));
>   	if (err)
> -		return err;
> +		return -EFAULT;
>   
>   	set_current_blocked(&set);
>   	regs->bta	= uregs.scratch.bta;
>