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authorDouglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>2018-01-14 17:00:48 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-02-25 11:05:42 +0100
commit7abb5e9dd5683d693376635ff05ec729216fd726 (patch)
treeddbfb2f4e6724cd35bf0d1bf939c9123374b2422 /block
parent3ee287d35b25076b626898284d610465145aa43b (diff)
blk_rq_map_user_iov: fix error override
commit 69e0927b3774563c19b5fb32e91d75edc147fb62 upstream. During stress tests by syzkaller on the sg driver the block layer infrequently returns EINVAL. Closer inspection shows the block layer was trying to return ENOMEM (which is much more understandable) but for some reason overroad that useful error. Patch below does not show this (unchanged) line: ret =__blk_rq_map_user_iov(rq, map_data, &i, gfp_mask, copy); That 'ret' was being overridden when that function failed. Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/blk-map.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-map.c b/block/blk-map.c
index 27fd8d92892d..a8b4f526d8bb 100644
--- a/block/blk-map.c
+++ b/block/blk-map.c
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ int blk_rq_map_user_iov(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq,
unsigned long align = q->dma_pad_mask | queue_dma_alignment(q);
struct bio *bio = NULL;
struct iov_iter i;
- int ret;
+ int ret = -EINVAL;
if (!iter_is_iovec(iter))
goto fail;
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ unmap_rq:
__blk_rq_unmap_user(bio);
fail:
rq->bio = NULL;
- return -EINVAL;
+ return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_rq_map_user_iov);