[PATCH v5 2/5] mm/gup: follow_pfn_pte(): -EEXIST cleanup

From: John Hubbard
Date: Mon Feb 07 2022 - 01:41:01 EST


Remove a quirky special case from follow_pfn_pte(), and adjust its
callers to match. Caller changes include:

__get_user_pages(): 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).

move_pages(): squash the -EEXIST error return from follow_page() into
-EFAULT, because -EFAULT is listed in the man page, whereas -EEXIST is
not.

Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/gup.c | 13 ++++++++-----
mm/migrate.c | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 80229ecf0114..2df0d0103c43 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -464,10 +464,6 @@ 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;

@@ -1205,8 +1201,15 @@ static long __get_user_pages(struct mm_struct *mm,
} else if (PTR_ERR(page) == -EEXIST) {
/*
* Proper page table entry exists, but no corresponding
- * struct page.
+ * struct page. If the caller expects **pages to be
+ * filled in, bail out now, because that can't be done
+ * for this page.
*/
+ if (pages) {
+ ret = PTR_ERR(page);
+ goto out;
+ }
+
goto next_page;
} else if (IS_ERR(page)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(page);
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index c7da064b4781..be0d5ae36dc1 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1761,6 +1761,13 @@ static int do_pages_move(struct mm_struct *mm, nodemask_t task_nodes,
continue;
}

+ /*
+ * The move_pages() man page does not have an -EEXIST choice, so
+ * use -EFAULT instead.
+ */
+ if (err == -EEXIST)
+ err = -EFAULT;
+
/*
* If the page is already on the target node (!err), store the
* node, otherwise, store the err.
--
2.35.1