The patch titled cpqarray: check put_user() result has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is cpqarray-check-put_user-result.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: cpqarray: check put_user() result From: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@xxxxxxxxx> put_user() may fail, if so return -EFAULT. Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Chirag Kantharia <chirag.kantharia@xxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/cpqarray.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/block/cpqarray.c~cpqarray-check-put_user-result drivers/block/cpqarray.c --- a/drivers/block/cpqarray.c~cpqarray-check-put_user-result +++ a/drivers/block/cpqarray.c @@ -1179,7 +1179,8 @@ out_passthru: return error; case IDAGETCTLRSIG: if (!arg) return -EINVAL; - put_user(host->ctlr_sig, (int __user *)arg); + if (put_user(host->ctlr_sig, (int __user *)arg)) + return -EFAULT; return 0; case IDAREVALIDATEVOLS: if (MINOR(bdev->bd_dev) != 0) @@ -1187,7 +1188,8 @@ out_passthru: return revalidate_allvol(host); case IDADRIVERVERSION: if (!arg) return -EINVAL; - put_user(DRIVER_VERSION, (unsigned long __user *)arg); + if (put_user(DRIVER_VERSION, (unsigned long __user *)arg)) + return -EFAULT; return 0; case IDAGETPCIINFO: { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from segooon@xxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch cpqarray-check-put_user-result.patch mm-vmallocc-check-kmalloc-return-value.patch i2o-fix-overflow-of-copy_to_user.patch i2o-check-return-code-from-put_user.patch edac-i5000-improve-handling-of-pci_enable_device-return-value.patch edac-i5400-improve-handling-of-pci_enable_device-return-value.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html