This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arc: kernel: Return -EFAULT if copy_to_user() fails to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: arc-kernel-return-efault-if-copy_to_user-fails.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 48531f03e31e19bd7d9c2b71fe70379e83d90d96 Author: Wang Qing <wangqing@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Mar 1 20:05:48 2021 +0800 arc: kernel: Return -EFAULT if copy_to_user() fails [ Upstream commit 46e152186cd89d940b26726fff11eb3f4935b45a ] The copy_to_user() function returns the number of bytes remaining to be copied, but we want to return -EFAULT if the copy doesn't complete. Signed-off-by: Wang Qing <wangqing@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arc/kernel/signal.c index 48685445002e..da243420bcb5 100644 --- a/arch/arc/kernel/signal.c +++ b/arch/arc/kernel/signal.c @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ stash_usr_regs(struct rt_sigframe __user *sf, struct pt_regs *regs, sizeof(sf->uc.uc_mcontext.regs.scratch)); err |= __copy_to_user(&sf->uc.uc_sigmask, set, sizeof(sigset_t)); - return err; + return err ? -EFAULT : 0; } static int restore_usr_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, struct rt_sigframe __user *sf) @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ static int restore_usr_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, struct rt_sigframe __user *sf) &(sf->uc.uc_mcontext.regs.scratch), sizeof(sf->uc.uc_mcontext.regs.scratch)); if (err) - return err; + return -EFAULT; set_current_blocked(&set); regs->bta = uregs.scratch.bta;