linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] uprobes: write_opcode: alloc the new page outside of "retry" loop

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Date:	Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:49:11 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Anton Arapov <anton@...hat.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] uprobes: write_opcode: alloc the new page outside
	of "retry" loop

On 06/20, Anton Arapov wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 09:47:59PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > @@ -214,19 +214,18 @@ static int write_opcode(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct mm_struct *mm,
> >  	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> >  	int ret;
> >
> > -retry:
> > -	/* Read the page with vaddr into memory */
> > -	ret = get_user_pages(NULL, mm, vaddr, 1, 0, 0, &old_page, &vma);
> > -	if (ret <= 0)
> > -		return ret;
> > -
> > -	ret = -ENOMEM;
> >  	new_page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, vma, vaddr);
>   Should we want NULL instead of vma in alloc_page_vma()? Or
> initialize vma with NULL...

OOPS. Thanks Anton, this should be fixed.

Oleg.

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