In case of error when writing to userspace, function mthca_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: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> Cc: cocci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_provider.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_provider.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_provider.c index 5b71d43bd89c..42dde06fdb91 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_provider.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_provider.c @@ -695,6 +695,7 @@ static struct ib_cq *mthca_create_cq(struct ib_device *ibdev, int entries, if (context && ib_copy_to_udata(udata, &cq->cqn, sizeof (__u32))) { mthca_free_cq(to_mdev(ibdev), cq); + err = -EFAULT; goto err_free; } -- 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