Re: [PATCH v2 for-4.5] vfio: fix ioctl error handling

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Sun Feb 28 2016 - 09:25:20 EST


On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 08:23:36AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 15:51:49 +0200
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Calling return copy_to_user(...) in an ioctl will not
> > do the right thing if there's a pagefault:
> > copy_to_user returns the number of bytes not copied
> > in this case.
> >
> > Fix up vfio to do
> > if (copy_to_user(...))
> > return -EFAULT;
> > return 0;
> >
> > everywhere.
> >
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > Changes from v1:
> > fix up good path logic to return 0.
> >
> > Compiled only.
> >
> > drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c | 12 +++++++++---
> > drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_common.c | 12 +++++++++---
> > drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 8 ++++++--
> > 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
> > index 2760a7b..286b91f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
> > @@ -446,7 +446,9 @@ static long vfio_pci_ioctl(void *device_data,
> > info.num_regions = VFIO_PCI_NUM_REGIONS;
> > info.num_irqs = VFIO_PCI_NUM_IRQS;
> >
> > - return copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &info, minsz);
> > + if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &info, minsz))
> > + return -EFAULT;
> > + return 0;
>
> Any objection to a ternary in each case?
>
> return copy_to_user((void __user *)arg,
> &info, minsz) ? -EFAULT : 0;

If you prefer, I'll do it in v3.