Re: [PATCH] RDMA/rxe: Return -EFAULT if copy_from_user() fails

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On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 11:17:06AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:02:03AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 09:29:36AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 09:37:42PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > > This function used to always return -EINVAL but we updated it to try
> > > > preserve the error codes.  Unfortunately the copy_to_user() is returning
> > > > the number of bytes remaining to be copied instead of a negative error
> > > > code.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: a3a974b4654d ("RDMA/rxe: Always return ERR_PTR from rxe_create_mmap_info()")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >  drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_queue.c | 5 +++--
> > > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Actually Yanjun is right and "err" can be removed.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> I don't know if the code you guys are looking at is older or newer than
> linux-next...  :P

We both looked on rdma-next, but the wrong code was added to -rc.

Jason, that patch was marked as stable@.

Thanks



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