Commit 991721572ef2140c6411894aebefd3377e71a9e7

Authored by Jens Axboe
Committed by Linus Torvalds
1 parent 16070428d3

[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>

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654 654 write_to_vm, 0, &pages[cur_page], NULL);
655 655 up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
656 656  
657   - if (ret < local_nr_pages)
  657 + if (ret < local_nr_pages) {
  658 + ret = -EFAULT;
658 659 goto out_unmap;
659   -
  660 + }
660 661  
661 662 offset = uaddr & ~PAGE_MASK;
662 663 for (j = cur_page; j < page_limit; j++) {