Re: [PATCH] block: fix SG_IO to return a proper error value

[FUJITA Tomonori]

Ping?

This patch is necessary to return a proper error for applications
issuing READ requests with a bogus buffer.

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 20:49:03 +0900
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> blk_rq_unmap_user() returns -EFAULT if a program passes an invalid
> address to kernel. SG_IO path needs to pass the returned value to user
> space instead of ignoring it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  block/scsi_ioctl.c |    6 ++++--
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/scsi_ioctl.c b/block/scsi_ioctl.c
> index 626ee27..84b7f87 100644
> --- a/block/scsi_ioctl.c
> +++ b/block/scsi_ioctl.c
> @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ static int blk_fill_sghdr_rq(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq,
>  static int blk_complete_sghdr_rq(struct request *rq, struct sg_io_hdr *hdr,
>  				 struct bio *bio)
>  {
> -	int ret = 0;
> +	int r, ret = 0;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * fill in all the output members
> @@ -242,7 +242,9 @@ static int blk_complete_sghdr_rq(struct request *rq, struct sg_io_hdr *hdr,
>  			ret = -EFAULT;
>  	}
>  
> -	blk_rq_unmap_user(bio);
> +	r = blk_rq_unmap_user(bio);
> +	if (!ret)
> +		ret = r;
>  	blk_put_request(rq);
>  
>  	return ret;
> -- 
> 1.6.0.6
> 
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