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Message-Id: <20070921223213.D92CC13DCD@wotan.suse.de>
Date:	Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:32:13 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	patches@...-64.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] [15/50] x86_64: Return EINVAL for unknown address in change_page_attr


Matches what i386 does and makes more sense.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>

---
 arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux/arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c
+++ linux/arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -151,7 +151,9 @@ __change_page_attr(unsigned long address
 	pgprot_t ref_prot2;
 
 	kpte = lookup_address(address);
-	if (!kpte) return 0;
+	if (!kpte)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	kpte_page = virt_to_page(((unsigned long)kpte) & PAGE_MASK);
 	BUG_ON(PageCompound(kpte_page));
 	BUG_ON(PageLRU(kpte_page));
-
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