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fs/proc/kcore.c: Clear ret value in read_kcore_iter after successful iov_iter_zero

Message ID 20241121231118.3212000-1-jolsa@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series fs/proc/kcore.c: Clear ret value in read_kcore_iter after successful iov_iter_zero | expand

Commit Message

Jiri Olsa Nov. 21, 2024, 11:11 p.m. UTC
If iov_iter_zero succeeds after failed copy_from_kernel_nofault,
we need to reset the ret value to zero otherwise it will be returned
as final return value of read_kcore_iter.

This fixes objdump -d dump over /proc/kcore for me.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Fixes: 3d5854d75e31 ("fs/proc/kcore.c: allow translation of physical memory addresses")
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
---
 fs/proc/kcore.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Comments

Alexander Gordeev Nov. 22, 2024, 8:40 a.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 12:11:18AM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> If iov_iter_zero succeeds after failed copy_from_kernel_nofault,
> we need to reset the ret value to zero otherwise it will be returned
> as final return value of read_kcore_iter.
> 
> This fixes objdump -d dump over /proc/kcore for me.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
> Fixes: 3d5854d75e31 ("fs/proc/kcore.c: allow translation of physical memory addresses")
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
> ---
>  fs/proc/kcore.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/proc/kcore.c b/fs/proc/kcore.c
> index 51446c59388f..c82c408e573e 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/kcore.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/kcore.c
> @@ -600,6 +600,7 @@ static ssize_t read_kcore_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
>  					ret = -EFAULT;
>  					goto out;
>  				}
> +				ret = 0;
>  			/*
>  			 * We know the bounce buffer is safe to copy from, so
>  			 * use _copy_to_iter() directly.

Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>

Thank you, Jiri!
Christian Brauner Nov. 22, 2024, 11:09 a.m. UTC | #2
On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:11:18 +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> If iov_iter_zero succeeds after failed copy_from_kernel_nofault,
> we need to reset the ret value to zero otherwise it will be returned
> as final return value of read_kcore_iter.
> 
> This fixes objdump -d dump over /proc/kcore for me.
> 
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs.fixes branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.fixes branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
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[1/1] fs/proc/kcore.c: Clear ret value in read_kcore_iter after successful iov_iter_zero
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/088f294609d8
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diff --git a/fs/proc/kcore.c b/fs/proc/kcore.c
index 51446c59388f..c82c408e573e 100644
--- a/fs/proc/kcore.c
+++ b/fs/proc/kcore.c
@@ -600,6 +600,7 @@  static ssize_t read_kcore_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
 					ret = -EFAULT;
 					goto out;
 				}
+				ret = 0;
 			/*
 			 * We know the bounce buffer is safe to copy from, so
 			 * use _copy_to_iter() directly.