Re: [PATCH v2] RDMA/umem: minor bug fix and cleanup in error handling paths

[Artemy Kovalyov]

On 02/03/2019 21:44, Ira Weiny wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 12:24:35PM -0800, john.hubbard@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ...
> > 3. Dead code removal: the check for (user_virt & ~page_mask)
> > is checking for a condition that can never happen,
> > because earlier:
> >
> >      user_virt = user_virt & page_mask;
> >
> > ...so, remove that entire phrase.
> >
> >   
> >   		bcnt -= min_t(size_t, npages << PAGE_SHIFT, bcnt);
> >   		mutex_lock(&umem_odp->umem_mutex);
> >   		for (j = 0; j < npages; j++, user_virt += PAGE_SIZE) {
> > -			if (user_virt & ~page_mask) {
> > -				p += PAGE_SIZE;
> > -				if (page_to_phys(local_page_list[j]) != p) {
> > -					ret = -EFAULT;
> > -					break;
> > -				}
> > -				put_page(local_page_list[j]);
> > -				continue;
> > -			}
> > -
>
> I think this is trying to account for compound pages. (ie page_mask could
> represent more than PAGE_SIZE which is what user_virt is being incrimented by.)
> But putting the page in that case seems to be the wrong thing to do?
>
> Yes this was added by Artemy[1] now cc'ed.

Right, this is for huge pages, please keep it.
put_page() needed to decrement refcount of the head page.