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authorJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>2006-06-16 13:02:29 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-17 10:52:12 -0700
commit991721572ef2140c6411894aebefd3377e71a9e7 (patch)
tree8264f83a60517616b860c0bce7d0e0413eb5c2cb /fs
parent16070428d389ff47aa3476b0911179ad90c640a2 (diff)
downloadlinux-991721572ef2140c6411894aebefd3377e71a9e7.tar.gz
[PATCH] Fix missing ret assignment in __bio_map_user() error path
If get_user_pages() returns less pages than what we asked for, we jump
to out_unmap which will return ERR_PTR(ret).  But ret can contain a
positive number just smaller than local_nr_pages, so be sure to set it
to -EFAULT always.

Problem found and diagnosed by Damien Le Moal <damien@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/bio.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
index 098c12b2d60a..6a0b9ad8f8c9 100644
--- a/fs/bio.c
+++ b/fs/bio.c
@@ -654,9 +654,10 @@ static struct bio *__bio_map_user_iov(request_queue_t *q,
 				     write_to_vm, 0, &pages[cur_page], NULL);
 		up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
 
-		if (ret < local_nr_pages)
+		if (ret < local_nr_pages) {
+			ret = -EFAULT;
 			goto out_unmap;
-
+		}
 
 		offset = uaddr & ~PAGE_MASK;
 		for (j = cur_page; j < page_limit; j++) {