This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
RDMA/uverbs: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() bug
to the 5.4-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:
rdma-uverbs-fix-a-null-vs-is_err-bug.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit b1a0b6ff6c5c0497ce2ae05093205686aa8834ee
Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri May 14 17:18:10 2021 +0300
RDMA/uverbs: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() bug
[ Upstream commit 463a3f66473b58d71428a1c3ce69ea52c05440e5 ]
The uapi_get_object() function returns error pointers, it never returns
NULL.
Fixes: 149d3845f4a5 ("RDMA/uverbs: Add a method to introspect handles in a context")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YJ6Got+U7lz+3n9a@mwanda
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_device.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_device.c
index 2a3f2f01028d..fd351bdec3f6 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_device.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_device.c
@@ -110,8 +110,8 @@ static int UVERBS_HANDLER(UVERBS_METHOD_INFO_HANDLES)(
return ret;
uapi_object = uapi_get_object(attrs->ufile->device->uapi, object_id);
- if (!uapi_object)
- return -EINVAL;
+ if (IS_ERR(uapi_object))
+ return PTR_ERR(uapi_object);
handles = gather_objects_handle(attrs->ufile, uapi_object, attrs,
out_len, &total);
