Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2016-02-29

[PATCH for-4.5] arm/kvm: fix ioctl error handling

From: Christoffer Dall <hidden>
Date: 2016-02-29 08:28:13
Also in: kvm, kvmarm, lkml, stable

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 05:32:07PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin 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 kvm to do
	return copy_to_user(...)) ?  -EFAULT : 0;

everywhere.

Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <redacted>
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