On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 10:48:51PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Commit 8c6657cb50cb ("Switch flock copyin/copyout primitives to > copy_{from,to}_user()") added copy_flock_fields(from, to), but then in all cases > called it with arguments of (to, from). eg: > > static int get_compat_flock(struct flock *kfl, struct compat_flock __user *ufl) > { > struct compat_flock fl; > > if (copy_from_user(&fl, ufl, sizeof(struct compat_flock))) > return -EFAULT; > copy_flock_fields(*kfl, fl); > return 0; > } > > We are reading the compat_flock ufl from userspace, into flock kfl. First we > copy all of ufl into fl on the stack, and then we want to assign each field of > fl to kfl. So we are copying from fl and to kfl. But as written the > copy_flock_fields() macro takes the arguments in the other order. > > copy_to/from_user() take "to" as the first argument, so change the order of > arguments in the copy_flock_fields() macro, rather than changing the callers. D'oh... Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>