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blk_rq_map_user_iov: fix error override
authorDouglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Sun, 14 Jan 2018 22:00:48 +0000 (17:00 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 10:05:42 +0000 (11:05 +0100)
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>
block/blk-map.c

index 27fd8d92892d47e3478d9bcf3e1294a8eb28da89..a8b4f526d8bb22a7ab1fca78b7fb1d12e5a5da64 100644 (file)
@@ -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);