linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ia64: Return -ENOMEM in ia64_mmap

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Date:	Tue, 2 Jun 2015 11:09:18 +0200
From:	Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
To:	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
Cc:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: Return -ENOMEM in ia64_mmap_check() error case

Ping. Tony, Fenghua, any opinion on this?

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:27:19PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
> 
> 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@...e.de>
> ---
>  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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