This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: v4l2-ioctl.c: don't copy back the result for -ENOTTY 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: media-v4l2-ioctl.c-don-t-copy-back-the-result-for-enotty.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. >From foo@baz Wed Feb 14 20:54:11 CET 2018 From: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 12:44:23 +0100 Subject: media: v4l2-ioctl.c: don't copy back the result for -ENOTTY To: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx>, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <20180214114434.26842-3-hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> From: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx> commit 181a4a2d5a0a7b43cab08a70710d727e7764ccdd upstream. If the ioctl returned -ENOTTY, then don't bother copying back the result as there is no point. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c @@ -2892,8 +2892,11 @@ video_usercopy(struct file *file, unsign /* Handles IOCTL */ err = func(file, cmd, parg); - if (err == -ENOIOCTLCMD) + if (err == -ENOTTY || err == -ENOIOCTLCMD) { err = -ENOTTY; + goto out; + } + if (err == 0) { if (cmd == VIDIOC_DQBUF) trace_v4l2_dqbuf(video_devdata(file)->minor, parg); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/media-v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c-copy-m.userptr-in-put_v4l2_plane32.patch queue-4.14/media-v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c-avoid-sizeof-type.patch queue-4.14/media-v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c-drop-pr_info-for-unknown-buffer-type.patch queue-4.14/media-v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c-add-missing-vidioc_prepare_buf.patch queue-4.14/media-v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c-refactor-compat-ioctl32-logic.patch queue-4.14/media-v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c-fix-ctrl_is_pointer.patch queue-4.14/media-v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c-move-helper-functions-to-__get-put_v4l2_format32.patch queue-4.14/media-v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c-don-t-copy-back-the-result-for-certain-errors.patch queue-4.14/media-v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c-make-ctrl_is_pointer-work-for-subdevs.patch queue-4.14/media-v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c-fix-the-indentation.patch queue-4.14/media-v4l2-ioctl.c-don-t-copy-back-the-result-for-enotty.patch queue-4.14/media-v4l2-ioctl.c-use-check_fmt-for-enum-g-s-try_fmt.patch queue-4.14/media-v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c-copy-clip-list-in-put_v4l2_window32.patch