linux-kernel - Re: mm: use down_read_killable for locking mmap_sem in access_remote

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Date:   Thu, 16 May 2019 19:00:35 +0200
From:   Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>
To:     Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
Cc:     mkoutny@...e.cz, linux-mm@...ck.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        oleg@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mm: use down_read_killable for locking mmap_sem in
 access_remote_vm


On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 11:48:32AM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru> wrote:
> This function ignores any error like reading from unmapped area and
> returns only size of successful transfer. It never returned any error codes.
This is a point I missed. Hence no need to adjust consumers of
__access_remote_vm() (they won't actually handle -EINTR correctly w/out
further changes). This beats my original idea with simplicity.


Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>

Michal