In case of error when writing to userspace, function ehca_create_cq() do not set an error code before following its error path. This patch set error code to -EFAULT when ib_copy_to_udata() fail. This was caught when using spatch (aka. coccinelle) to rewrite call to ib_copy_{from,to}_udata(). Link: https://www.gitorious.org/opteya/coccib/source/75ebf2c1033c64c1d81df13e4ae44ee99c989eba:ib_copy_udata.cocci Link: http://marc.info/?i=cover.1394485254.git.ydroneaud@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Raisch <raisch@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> Cc: cocci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_cq.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_cq.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_cq.c index 212150c25ea0..8cc837537768 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_cq.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_cq.c @@ -283,6 +283,7 @@ struct ib_cq *ehca_create_cq(struct ib_device *device, int cqe, int comp_vector, (my_cq->galpas.user.fw_handle & (PAGE_SIZE - 1)); if (ib_copy_to_udata(udata, &resp, sizeof(resp))) { ehca_err(device, "Copy to udata failed."); + cq = ERR_PTR(-EFAULT); goto create_cq_exit4; } } -- 1.8.5.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html