linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: fix do

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Date:	Wed, 04 Mar 2015 20:20:04 -0600
From:	Kazutomo Yoshii <kazutomo.yoshii@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm: fix do_mbind return value

I noticed that numa_alloc_onnode() failed to allocate memory on a
specified node in v4.0-rc1. I added a code to check the return value
of walk_page_range() in queue_pages_range() so that do_mbind() only
returns an error number or zero.

Signed-off-by: Kazutomo Yoshii <kazutomo.yoshii@...il.com>
---
 mm/mempolicy.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 4721046..ea79171 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -644,6 +644,7 @@ queue_pages_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 		.nmask = nodes,
 		.prev = NULL,
 	};
+	int err;
 	struct mm_walk queue_pages_walk = {
 		.hugetlb_entry = queue_pages_hugetlb,
 		.pmd_entry = queue_pages_pte_range,
@@ -652,7 +653,10 @@ queue_pages_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 		.private = &qp,
 	};
 -	return walk_page_range(start, end, &queue_pages_walk);
+	err = walk_page_range(start, end, &queue_pages_walk);
+	if (err < 0)
+		return err;
+	return 0;
 }
  /*
-- 
1.8.3.1

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