Re: [PATCH for-4.5] watchdog/rc32434_wdt: fix ioctl error handling

From: Wim Van Sebroeck
Date: Fri Mar 04 2016 - 14:39:48 EST


Hi Michael,

> 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 watchdog/rc32434_wdt to do
> return copy_to_user(...)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
>
> instead.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Untested.
>
> drivers/watchdog/rc32434_wdt.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/rc32434_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/rc32434_wdt.c
> index 71e78ef..3a75f3b 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/rc32434_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/rc32434_wdt.c
> @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ static long rc32434_wdt_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
> return -EINVAL;
> /* Fall through */
> case WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT:
> - return copy_to_user(argp, &timeout, sizeof(int));
> + return copy_to_user(argp, &timeout, sizeof(int)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
> default:
> return -ENOTTY;
> }
> --
> MST

Patch has been added to linux-watchdog-next.

Kind regards,
Wim.