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cxl: Fix error path on bad ioctl

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).

Fixes: 0712dc7e73e5 ("cxl: Fix issues when unmapping contexts")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.19+
Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Frederic Barrat 8 years ago
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cec422c11c
1 changed files with 2 additions and 5 deletions
  1. 2 5
      drivers/misc/cxl/file.c

+ 2 - 5
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) {