From: Heiko Carstens 758333458aa719bfc26ec16eafd4ad3a9e96014d fixes the not checked copy_to_user return value of compat_sys_pselect7. I ran into this too because of an old source tree, but my fix would look quite a bit different to Andi's fix. The reason is that the compat function IMHO should behave the very same as the non-compat function if possible. Since sys_pselect7 does not return -EFAULT in this specific case, change the compat code so it behaves like sys_pselect7. Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/compat.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/compat.c~sys_pselect7-vs-compat_sys_pselect7-uaccess-error-handling fs/compat.c --- a/fs/compat.c~sys_pselect7-vs-compat_sys_pselect7-uaccess-error-handling +++ a/fs/compat.c @@ -1838,9 +1838,12 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_pselect7(int } while (!ret && !timeout && tsp && (ts.tv_sec || ts.tv_nsec)); - if (ret == 0 && tsp && !(current->personality & STICKY_TIMEOUTS)) { + if (tsp) { struct compat_timespec rts; + if (current->personality & STICKY_TIMEOUTS) + goto sticky; + rts.tv_sec = timeout / HZ; rts.tv_nsec = (timeout % HZ) * (NSEC_PER_SEC/HZ); if (rts.tv_nsec >= NSEC_PER_SEC) { @@ -1849,8 +1852,19 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_pselect7(int } if (compat_timespec_compare(&rts, &ts) >= 0) rts = ts; - if (copy_to_user(tsp, &rts, sizeof(rts))) - ret = -EFAULT; + if (copy_to_user(tsp, &rts, sizeof(rts))) { +sticky: + /* + * If an application puts its timeval in read-only + * memory, we don't want the Linux-specific update to + * the timeval to cause a fault after the select has + * completed successfully. However, because we're not + * updating the timeval, we can't restart the system + * call. + */ + if (ret == -ERESTARTNOHAND) + ret = -EINTR; + } } if (ret == -ERESTARTNOHAND) { _