Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] mmap: Fix error paths with dup_anon_vma()

From: Suren Baghdasaryan
Date: Fri Oct 06 2023 - 17:32:35 EST


On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 2:08 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 09:21:22 -0700 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > @@ -633,7 +641,7 @@ int vma_expand(struct vma_iterator *vmi, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> > >
> > > remove_next = true;
> > > vma_start_write(next);
> > > - ret = dup_anon_vma(vma, next);
> > > + ret = dup_anon_vma(vma, next, &anon_dup);
> > > if (ret)
> > > return ret;
> >
> > Shouldn't the above be changed to a "goto nomem" instead of "return ret" ?
>
> It looks OK to me as-is - dup_anon_vma() leaves anon_dup==NULL
> when it returns error.

Yes, I realised that after sending the question and didn't want to
create more noise than I already did... All seems good.