Re: [PATCH] drivers/dax: Avoiding potential deadlock

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Pushkar Jambhlekar
<pushkar.iit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> dax_dev_huge_fault returning without releasing lock. Making code change to avoid this situation
>
> Signed-off-by: Pushkar Jambhlekar <pushkar.iit@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/dax/dax.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dax/dax.c b/drivers/dax/dax.c
> index 0d1ca24..fd9c4db 100644
> --- a/drivers/dax/dax.c
> +++ b/drivers/dax/dax.c
> @@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ static int dax_dev_huge_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf,
>                 rc = __dax_dev_pud_fault(dax_dev, vmf);
>                 break;
>         default:
> -               return VM_FAULT_FALLBACK;
> +               rc = VM_FAULT_FALLBACK;

Thanks for the fix! Luckily we never take that branch, but we should
fix it so we don't trip over it in some future where there are more
fault sizes than pte, pmd, and pud. However, it should be setting rc
to VM_FAULT_SIGBUS on an unknown / unsupported fault size.