Re: [PATCH for-4.5] arm/kvm: fix ioctl error handling

From: Christoffer Dall
Date: Mon Feb 29 2016 - 03:28:17 EST


On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 05:32:07PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 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.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx>