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From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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        stable@vger.kernel.org, Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>,
        Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 31/80] cifs: smbd: Return -EINVAL when the number of iovs exceeds SMBDIRECT_MAX_SGE
Date:   Thu, 19 Dec 2019 19:34:23 +0100
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From: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>

commit 37941ea17d3f8eb2f5ac2f59346fab9e8439271a upstream.

While it's not friendly to fail user processes that issue more iovs
than we support, at least we should return the correct error code so the
user process gets a chance to retry with smaller number of iovs.

Signed-off-by: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/cifs/smbdirect.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/cifs/smbdirect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/smbdirect.c
@@ -1069,7 +1069,7 @@ static int smbd_post_send_data(
 
 	if (n_vec > SMBDIRECT_MAX_SGE) {
 		cifs_dbg(VFS, "Can't fit data to SGL, n_vec=%d\n", n_vec);
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	sg_init_table(sgl, n_vec);