Re: [patch] ksm: check for ERR_PTR from follow_page()

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:24:24AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 04/21/2010 06:27 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > The follow_page() function can potentially return -EFAULT so I added
> > checks for this.
> >
> > Also I silenced an uninitialized variable warning on my version of gcc
> > (version 4.3.2).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter<error27@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

  	    	while (!(page = follow_page(vma, start, foll_flags)))
  	    	{

gup only checks for null, so when exactly is follow_page going to
return -EFAULT? It's not immediately clear.
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