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/dev/mem: Avoid overwriting "err" in read_mem()
authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 21:06:14 +0000 (14:06 -0700)
committerThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Mon, 9 Apr 2018 13:41:58 +0000 (10:41 -0300)
commit7feac526c6077cb2b6ab806aa13b37b9ff53a9a7
tree5c3a1fc74e923128482326ecd603681e94904359
parent19584ab08eae24314367c6304caeed8bc836e6d5
/dev/mem: Avoid overwriting "err" in read_mem()

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762370
commit b5b38200ebe54879a7264cb6f33821f61c586a7e upstream.

Successes in probe_kernel_read() would mask failures in copy_to_user()
during read_mem().

Reported-by: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Fixes: 22ec1a2aea73 ("/dev/mem: Add bounce buffer for copy-out")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
drivers/char/mem.c