4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jason Wang jasowang@redhat.com
[ 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 mst@redhat.com Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger stephen@networkplumber.org Signed-off-by: Jason Wang jasowang@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c @@ -1696,7 +1696,7 @@ static int log_used(struct vhost_virtque
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++) {