* [merged] userfaultfd_copy-return-enospc-in-case-mm-has-gone.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2017-02-27 20:26 akpm
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From: akpm @ 2017-02-27 20:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rppt, aarcange, dgilbert, hillf.zj, mike.kravetz, xemul, mm-commits
The patch titled
Subject: userfaultfd_copy: return -ENOSPC in case mm has gone
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
userfaultfd_copy-return-enospc-in-case-mm-has-gone.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: userfaultfd_copy: return -ENOSPC in case mm has gone
In the non-cooperative userfaultfd case, the process exit may race with
outstanding mcopy_atomic called by the uffd monitor. Returning -ENOSPC
instead of -EINVAL when mm is already gone will allow uffd monitor to
distinguish this case from other error conditions.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485542673-24387-6-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
fs/userfaultfd.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff -puN fs/userfaultfd.c~userfaultfd_copy-return-enospc-in-case-mm-has-gone fs/userfaultfd.c
--- a/fs/userfaultfd.c~userfaultfd_copy-return-enospc-in-case-mm-has-gone
+++ a/fs/userfaultfd.c
@@ -1607,6 +1607,8 @@ static int userfaultfd_copy(struct userf
ret = mcopy_atomic(ctx->mm, uffdio_copy.dst, uffdio_copy.src,
uffdio_copy.len);
mmput(ctx->mm);
+ } else {
+ return -ENOSPC;
}
if (unlikely(put_user(ret, &user_uffdio_copy->copy)))
return -EFAULT;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com are
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