On 16/03/2018 1:06 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Fri, 2018-03-16 at 01:00 +0800, Coly Li wrote: >> On 15/03/2018 11:08 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote: >>> copy_to_user() returns the number of remaining bytes. Avoid that >>> a larger value is returned than the number of bytes that have >>> been copied by returning -EFAULT if not all bytes have been copied. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx> >>> --- >>> drivers/md/bcache/debug.c | 5 ++--- >>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/debug.c b/drivers/md/bcache/debug.c >>> index af89408befe8..376899cfcbf1 100644 >>> --- a/drivers/md/bcache/debug.c >>> +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/debug.c >>> @@ -175,9 +175,8 @@ static ssize_t bch_dump_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, >>> struct keybuf_key *w; >>> unsigned bytes = min(i->bytes, size); >>> >>> - int err = copy_to_user(buf, i->buf, bytes); >>> - if (err) >>> - return err; >>> + if (copy_to_user(buf, i->buf, bytes)) >>> + return -EFAULT; >>> >> >> Hi Bart, >> >> I am not sure whether this change is correct. -EFAULT seems not an >> expected return value of read(2), while -1 is the expected return value >> when error occurs. >> >> Maybe if copy_to_user() returns value in (0, size], "ret + (size - err)" >> should be returned. An exception is when copy_to_user() returns 0 and >> ret is 0 too, in this situation -1 should be returned. >> >> Correct me if I am wrong. > > Hello Coly, > > I'm not familiar enough with bcache to provide the answer to your question so > I will drop this patch from this series. Hi Bart, It seems you catch a code bug here. I will look into this and handle it here. Thanks for the hint :-) Coly Li -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
