From: Jason Wang Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 06:53:44 +0000 (+0800) Subject: vhost: correctly check the return value of translate_desc() in log_used() X-Git-Tag: v4.20.12~17 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=67df61cef0ea269336234c0986fe983da22026fe;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git vhost: correctly check the return value of translate_desc() in log_used() [ Upstream commit 816db7663565cd23f74ed3d5c9240522e3fb0dda ] When fail, translate_desc() returns negative value, otherwise the number of iovs. So we should fail when the return value is negative instead of a blindly check against zero. Detected by CoverityScan, CID# 1442593: Control flow issues (DEADCODE) Fixes: cc5e71075947 ("vhost: log dirty page correctly") Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Jason Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c index cf82e72663976..5eaeca805c95c 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c @@ -1784,7 +1784,7 @@ static int log_used(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, u64 used_offset, u64 len) ret = translate_desc(vq, (uintptr_t)vq->used + used_offset, len, iov, 64, VHOST_ACCESS_WO); - if (ret) + if (ret < 0) return ret; for (i = 0; i < ret; i++) {