linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm, vmpressure: Fix a signedness bug in vmpressure_register

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Date:   Sat, 28 Sep 2019 14:47:02 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        tglx@...utronix.de, Enrico Weigelt <info@...ux.net>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, vmpressure: Fix a signedness bug in
 vmpressure_register_event()

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 02:23:56PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> How about doing it this way?  Only copy the int to the enum once we
> know it's within range?

This will return a positive integer on success instead of 0.  We need:

 	mutex_unlock(&vmpr->events_lock);
+	ret = 0;
 out:

with that,

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>

How about further adding ...

+ * Return: 0 on success, -ENOMEM on memory failure or -EINVAL if @args could
+ * not be parsed.