From: Sanchit Garg <sancgarg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This patch ensures that a read(fd, NULL, 0 ) returns EFAULT on a 9p file. Signed-off-by: Sanchit Garg <sancgarg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/9p/client.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/9p/client.c b/net/9p/client.c index e141e46..d5344d8 100644 --- a/net/9p/client.c +++ b/net/9p/client.c @@ -1313,6 +1313,11 @@ p9_client_read(struct p9_fid *fid, char *data, char __user *udata, u64 offset, rsize = fid->iounit; if (!rsize || rsize > clnt->msize-P9_IOHDRSZ) rsize = clnt->msize - P9_IOHDRSZ; + /* + * A read with NULL user buffer cause EFAULT error + */ + if (!data && !udata) + return -EFAULT; if (count < rsize) rsize = count; @@ -1333,16 +1338,13 @@ p9_client_read(struct p9_fid *fid, char *data, char __user *udata, u64 offset, if (data) { memmove(data, dataptr, count); - } - - if (udata) { + } else { err = copy_to_user(udata, dataptr, count); if (err) { err = -EFAULT; goto free_and_error; } } - p9_free_req(clnt, req); return count; -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html