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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 01:50:15 +0530 From: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@...il.com> To: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, mchehab+samsung@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drivers/virt/fsl_hypervisor: Correcting error handling path On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 6:30 AM John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com> wrote: > > On 7/29/20 12:01 PM, Souptick Joarder wrote: > > First, when memory allocation for sg_list_unaligned failed, there > > is no point of calling put_pages() as we haven't pinned any pages. > > > > Second, if get_user_pages_fast() failed we should unpinned num_pinned > > pages, no point of checking till num_pages. > > Hi Souptick, > > For both of the above, the wording "no point" is so overly gentle as > to be misleading. That's because calling put_page() on any pages beyond > num_pinned is a *bug*. > > So let's reword that. And let's change the patch subject from "Correcting" to > "fix". > > And probably good to add a Fixes: tag, too. Is there any scripts/ settings to fetch Fixes: tag other than using git blame ? > > More: > > > > > This will address both. > > > > Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@...il.com> > > Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> > > Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com> > > --- > > v2: > > Added review tag. > > > > drivers/virt/fsl_hypervisor.c | 4 ++-- > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/virt/fsl_hypervisor.c b/drivers/virt/fsl_hypervisor.c > > index 1b0b11b..ea344d7 100644 > > --- a/drivers/virt/fsl_hypervisor.c > > +++ b/drivers/virt/fsl_hypervisor.c > > @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ static long ioctl_memcpy(struct fsl_hv_ioctl_memcpy __user *p) > > > > unsigned int i; > > long ret = 0; > > - int num_pinned; /* return value from get_user_pages() */ > > + int num_pinned = 0; /* return value from get_user_pages() */ > > phys_addr_t remote_paddr; /* The next address in the remote buffer */ > > uint32_t count; /* The number of bytes left to copy */ > > > > @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ static long ioctl_memcpy(struct fsl_hv_ioctl_memcpy __user *p) > > > > exit: > > if (pages) { > > - for (i = 0; i < num_pages; i++) > > + for (i = 0; i < num_pinned; i++) > > if (pages[i]) > > I suspect that this "if" is unnecessary now. > > Either way, the diff itself looks good to me, so with the wording changes to > the commit description, you can add: > > Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com> > > thanks, > -- > John Hubbard > NVIDIA > > > put_page(pages[i]); > > } > > >
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