linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/gup: finish consolidating error handling

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Date:   Wed, 21 Nov 2018 14:44:04 -0800
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     john.hubbard@...il.com
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/gup: finish consolidating error handling

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 00:14:02 -0800 john.hubbard@...il.com wrote:

> Commit df06b37ffe5a4 ("mm/gup: cache dev_pagemap while pinning pages")
> attempted to operate on each page that get_user_pages had retrieved. In
> order to do that, it created a common exit point from the routine.
> However, one case was missed, which this patch fixes up.
> 
> Also, there was still an unnecessary shadow declaration (with a
> different type) of the "ret" variable, which this patch removes.
> 

What is the bug which this supposedly fixes and what is that bug's
user-visible impact?