linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] userfaultfd: fix remap event with MREMAP

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Date:   Wed, 6 May 2020 18:11:17 -0700
From:   Brian Geffon <bgeffon@...gle.com>
To:     Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@...gle.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] userfaultfd: fix remap event with MREMAP_DONTUNMAP.

> > -       mremap_userfaultfd_complete(&uf, addr, new_addr, old_len);
> > +       mremap_userfaultfd_complete(&uf, addr, ret, old_len);
>
> Not super familiar with this code, but thought I'd ask, does ret
> to be checked for -ENOMEM before calling mremap_userfaultfd_complete?
> Sorry if I missed something.

No, mremap_userfaultfd_complete will do a check similar to
offset_in_page() by checking the page mask.
It does (to & ~PAGE_MASK) to check for a non-aligned "to" value, so we're good.

Additionally, earlier in the process then ctx will be null because we
will have never called mremap_userfaultfd_prep,
and mremap_userfaultfd_complete will check if there is a context
before proceeding.

Brian