4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com
[ Upstream commit 7fb2fd4e25fc1fb10dcb30b5519de257cfeae84c ]
The problem is that if get_user_pages_fast() fails and returns a negative error code, it gets type promoted to a high positive value and treated as a success.
Fixes: 06164d2b72aa ("VMCI: queue pairs implementation.") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c +++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c @@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ static int qp_host_get_user_memory(u64 p retval = get_user_pages_fast((uintptr_t) produce_uva, produce_q->kernel_if->num_pages, 1, produce_q->kernel_if->u.h.header_page); - if (retval < produce_q->kernel_if->num_pages) { + if (retval < (int)produce_q->kernel_if->num_pages) { pr_debug("get_user_pages_fast(produce) failed (retval=%d)", retval); qp_release_pages(produce_q->kernel_if->u.h.header_page, @@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ static int qp_host_get_user_memory(u64 p retval = get_user_pages_fast((uintptr_t) consume_uva, consume_q->kernel_if->num_pages, 1, consume_q->kernel_if->u.h.header_page); - if (retval < consume_q->kernel_if->num_pages) { + if (retval < (int)consume_q->kernel_if->num_pages) { pr_debug("get_user_pages_fast(consume) failed (retval=%d)", retval); qp_release_pages(consume_q->kernel_if->u.h.header_page,