Reviewed-by: christophe lombard <clomb...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


Le 06/06/2017 à 11:43, Frederic Barrat a écrit :
Fix error path if we can't copy user structure on CXL_IOCTL_START_WORK
ioctl. We shouldn't unlock the context status mutex as it was not
locked (yet).

Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbar...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0712dc7e73e5 ("cxl: Fix issues when unmapping contexts")
---
Changelog:
v2: change sizeof() parameter (Vaibhav)
     tweak commit message and add 'Fixes:' (mpe)
drivers/misc/cxl/file.c | 7 ++-----
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/cxl/file.c b/drivers/misc/cxl/file.c
index 17b433f1ce23..0761271d68c5 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/cxl/file.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/file.c
@@ -159,11 +159,8 @@ static long afu_ioctl_start_work(struct cxl_context *ctx,

        /* Do this outside the status_mutex to avoid a circular dependency with
         * the locking in cxl_mmap_fault() */
-       if (copy_from_user(&work, uwork,
-                          sizeof(struct cxl_ioctl_start_work))) {
-               rc = -EFAULT;
-               goto out;
-       }
+       if (copy_from_user(&work, uwork, sizeof(work)))
+               return -EFAULT;

        mutex_lock(&ctx->status_mutex);
        if (ctx->status != OPENED) {


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