[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 154/273] bio: return EINTR if copying to user space got interrupted

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Mon Mar 07 2016 - 18:38:01 EST


4.2.8-ckt5 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>

commit 2d99b55d378c996b9692a0c93dd25f4ed5d58934 upstream.

Commit 35dc248383bbab0a7203fca4d722875bc81ef091 introduced a check for
current->mm to see if we have a user space context and only copies data
if we do. Now if an IO gets interrupted by a signal data isn't copied
into user space any more (as we don't have a user space context) but
user space isn't notified about it.

This patch modifies the behaviour to return -EINTR from bio_uncopy_user()
to notify userland that a signal has interrupted the syscall, otherwise
it could lead to a situation where the caller may get a buffer with
no data returned.

This can be reproduced by issuing SG_IO ioctl()s in one thread while
constantly sending signals to it.

Fixes: 35dc248 [SCSI] sg: Fix user memory corruption when SG_IO is interrupted by a signal
Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/bio.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index d6e5ba3..60826f5 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -1137,9 +1137,12 @@ int bio_uncopy_user(struct bio *bio)
if (!bio_flagged(bio, BIO_NULL_MAPPED)) {
/*
* if we're in a workqueue, the request is orphaned, so
- * don't copy into a random user address space, just free.
+ * don't copy into a random user address space, just free
+ * and return -EINTR so user space doesn't expect any data.
*/
- if (current->mm && bio_data_dir(bio) == READ)
+ if (!current->mm)
+ ret = -EINTR;
+ else if (bio_data_dir(bio) == READ)
ret = bio_copy_to_iter(bio, bmd->iter);
if (bmd->is_our_pages)
bio_free_pages(bio);
--
2.7.0