Re: [patch] IB/rxe: fix error code in rxe_srq_from_init()

From: Leon Romanovsky
Date: Mon Jun 13 2016 - 09:20:54 EST


On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 09:53:41AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> If copy_to_user() fails then it returns the number of bytes not copied.
> It would be between 1-4 here. Later the callers dereference it leading
> to an Oops.
>
> It was sort of hard to fix this without making the code confusing so I
> did a little cleanup.
>
> Fixes: 443c15d23220 ('IB/rxe: Shared Receive Queue (SRQ) manipulation functions')
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Dan,
I applied it on topic/rxe.

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