Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: fixup_userfault returns VM_FAULT_RETRY if asked

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Wed Nov 18 2015 - 19:14:50 EST


On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 12:49:57AM +0100, Dominik Dingel wrote:
> When calling fixup_userfault with FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY, fixup_userfault
> didn't care about VM_FAULT_RETRY and returned 0. If the VM_FAULT_RETRY flag is
> set we will return the complete result of handle_mm_fault.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dominik Dingel <dingel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/gup.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
> index deafa2c..2af3b31 100644
> --- a/mm/gup.c
> +++ b/mm/gup.c
> @@ -609,6 +609,8 @@ int fixup_user_fault(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
> return -EFAULT;
> BUG();
> }
> + if (ret & VM_FAULT_RETRY)
> + return ret;

Nope. fixup_user_fault() return errno, not VM_FAULT_* mask.

I guess it should be
return -EBUSY;

> if (tsk) {
> if (ret & VM_FAULT_MAJOR)
> tsk->maj_flt++;
> --
> 2.3.9
>

--
Kirill A. Shutemov
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