On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 14:28 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> devkmsg_writev() does weird and wonderful things with
> facilities/levels.  That function incorrectly returns "success" when
> copy_from_user() faults, btw.

Oh. Better?

Thanks,
Kay


From: Kay Sievers <k...@vrfy.org>
Subject: kmsg: /dev/kmsg - properly return possible copy_from_user() failure

Reported-By: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <k...@vrfy.org
---
 printk.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 32462d2..6bdacab 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -365,8 +365,10 @@ static ssize_t devkmsg_writev(struct kiocb *iocb, const 
struct iovec *iv,
 
        line = buf;
        for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
-               if (copy_from_user(line, iv[i].iov_base, iv[i].iov_len))
+               if (copy_from_user(line, iv[i].iov_base, iv[i].iov_len)) {
+                       ret = -EFAULT;
                        goto out;
+               }
                line += iv[i].iov_len;
        }
 


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