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Message-ID: <CAOJsxLFXts1USPU827A1zaZsggER7CVzZah7TGKzNHzqF8Ttsg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 17 Jan 2016 12:02:53 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@...tfour.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: make apply_to_page_range more robust

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 7:41 AM, Mika Penttilä
<mika.penttila@...tfour.com> wrote:
> Recent changes (4.4.0+) in module loader triggered oops on ARM. While
> loading a module, size in :
>
> apply_to_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,   unsigned
> long size, pte_fn_t fn, void *data);
>
> can be 0 triggering the bug  BUG_ON(addr >= end);.
>
> Fix by letting call with zero size succeed.
>
> --Mika
>
> Signed-off-by: mika.penttila@...tfour.com

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>

We could also replace that BUG_ON() with a WARN_ON() and return -EINVAL.

> ---
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index c387430..c3d1a2e 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -1884,6 +1884,9 @@ int apply_to_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm,
> unsigned long addr,
>         unsigned long end = addr + size;
>         int err;
>
> +       if (!size)
> +               return 0;
> +
>         BUG_ON(addr >= end);
>         pgd = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
>         do {
>
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