[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 093/142] arm/arm64: KVM: Fix ioctl error handling
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Mar 22 10:40:22 UTC 2016
3.16.7-ckt26 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst at redhat.com>
commit 4cad67fca3fc952d6f2ed9e799621f07666a560f upstream.
Calling return copy_to_user(...) in an ioctl will not
do the right thing if there's a pagefault:
copy_to_user returns the number of bytes not copied
in this case.
Fix up kvm to do
return copy_to_user(...)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
everywhere.
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
[ luis: backported to 3.16:
- dropped changes to arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
arch/arm/kvm/guest.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/guest.c b/arch/arm/kvm/guest.c
index 2786eae10c0d..f3f6415b7828 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/guest.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/guest.c
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ static int get_timer_reg(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, const struct kvm_one_reg *reg)
u64 val;
val = kvm_arm_timer_get_reg(vcpu, reg->id);
- return copy_to_user(uaddr, &val, KVM_REG_SIZE(reg->id));
+ return copy_to_user(uaddr, &val, KVM_REG_SIZE(reg->id)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
}
static unsigned long num_core_regs(void)
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