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[4.2.y-ckt,stable] Patch "bio: return EINTR if copying to user space got interrupted" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

Message ID 1457390037-31625-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com
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Kamal Mostafa March 7, 2016, 10:33 p.m. UTC 
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    bio: return EINTR if copying to user space got interrupted

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt5.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From 7ae6084bd6f5351cc8b77430600fa729ac6c01ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 09:39:15 +0100
Subject: bio: return EINTR if copying to user space got interrupted

commit 2d99b55d378c996b9692a0c93dd25f4ed5d58934 upstream.

Commit 35dc248383bbab0a7203fca4d722875bc81ef091 introduced a check for
current->mm to see if we have a user space context and only copies data
if we do. Now if an IO gets interrupted by a signal data isn't copied
into user space any more (as we don't have a user space context) but
user space isn't notified about it.

This patch modifies the behaviour to return -EINTR from bio_uncopy_user()
to notify userland that a signal has interrupted the syscall, otherwise
it could lead to a situation where the caller may get a buffer with
no data returned.

This can be reproduced by issuing SG_IO ioctl()s in one thread while
constantly sending signals to it.

Fixes: 35dc248 [SCSI] sg: Fix user memory corruption when SG_IO is interrupted by a signal
Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
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 block/bio.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index d6e5ba3..60826f5 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -1137,9 +1137,12 @@  int bio_uncopy_user(struct bio *bio)
 	if (!bio_flagged(bio, BIO_NULL_MAPPED)) {
 		/*
 		 * if we're in a workqueue, the request is orphaned, so
-		 * don't copy into a random user address space, just free.
+		 * don't copy into a random user address space, just free
+		 * and return -EINTR so user space doesn't expect any data.
 		 */
-		if (current->mm && bio_data_dir(bio) == READ)
+		if (!current->mm)
+			ret = -EINTR;
+		else if (bio_data_dir(bio) == READ)
 			ret = bio_copy_to_iter(bio, bmd->iter);
 		if (bmd->is_our_pages)
 			bio_free_pages(bio);