Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] mm/gup: clean up follow_pfn_pte() slightly

[Jan Kara]

On Thu 03-02-22 01:32:30, John Hubbard wrote:
> Regardless of any FOLL_* flags, get_user_pages() and its variants should
> handle PFN-only entries by stopping early, if the caller expected
> **pages to be filled in.
> 
> This makes for a more reliable API, as compared to the previous approach
> of skipping over such entries (and thus leaving them silently
> unwritten).
> 
> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/gup.c | 11 ++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
> index 65575ae3602f..cad3f28492e3 100644
> --- a/mm/gup.c
> +++ b/mm/gup.c
> @@ -439,10 +439,6 @@ static struct page *no_page_table(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  static int follow_pfn_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
>  		pte_t *pte, unsigned int flags)
>  {
> -	/* No page to get reference */
> -	if (flags & (FOLL_GET | FOLL_PIN))
> -		return -EFAULT;
> -
>  	if (flags & FOLL_TOUCH) {
>  		pte_t entry = *pte;
>  

This will also modify the error code returned from follow_page(). A quick
audit shows that at least the user in mm/migrate.c will propagate this
error code to userspace and I'm not sure the change in error code will not
break something... EEXIST is a bit strange error code to get from
move_pages(2).

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR