Re: [PATCH] ia64: Return -ENOMEM in ia64_mmap_check() error case

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Tue Jun 02 2015 - 05:09:37 EST


Ping. Tony, Fenghua, any opinion on this?

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:27:19PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
>
> The value -ENOMEM is the expected return code for mmap when
> the address range verification failes on a MAP_FIXED
> request, as stated in the specification:
>
> [ENOMEM]
> MAP_FIXED was specified, and the range
> [addr,addr+len) exceeds that allowed for the
> address space of a process;
>
> The ia64_mmap_check() function is part of that verification
> and should return -ENOMEM too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/ia64/kernel/sys_ia64.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/sys_ia64.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/sys_ia64.c
> index 41e33f8..e927023 100644
> --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/sys_ia64.c
> +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/sys_ia64.c
> @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ int ia64_mmap_check(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
> */
> roff = REGION_OFFSET(addr);
> if ((len > RGN_MAP_LIMIT) || (roff > (RGN_MAP_LIMIT - len)))
> - return -EINVAL;
> + return -ENOMEM;
> return 0;
> }
>
> --
> 1.8.4.5
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