This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
media: v4l2-ioctl.c: don't copy back the result for -ENOTTY
to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: media-v4l2-ioctl.c-don-t-copy-back-the-result-for-enotty.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From 181a4a2d5a0a7b43cab08a70710d727e7764ccdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hans Verkuil hans.verkuil@cisco.com Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 03:50:01 -0500 Subject: media: v4l2-ioctl.c: don't copy back the result for -ENOTTY
From: Hans Verkuil hans.verkuil@cisco.com
commit 181a4a2d5a0a7b43cab08a70710d727e7764ccdd upstream.
If the ioctl returned -ENOTTY, then don't bother copying back the result as there is no point.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil hans.verkuil@cisco.com Acked-by: Sakari Ailus sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # for v4.15 and up Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab@s-opensource.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c @@ -2539,8 +2539,11 @@ video_usercopy(struct file *file, unsign
/* Handles IOCTL */ err = func(file, cmd, parg); - if (err == -ENOIOCTLCMD) + if (err == -ENOTTY || err == -ENOIOCTLCMD) { err = -ENOTTY; + goto out; + } + if (err == 0) { if (cmd == VIDIOC_DQBUF) trace_v4l2_dqbuf(video_devdata(file)->minor, parg);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hans.verkuil@cisco.com are
queue-3.18/vb2-v4l2_buf_flag_done-is-set-after-dqbuf.patch queue-3.18/media-v4l2-ioctl.c-don-t-copy-back-the-result-for-enotty.patch