linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/gup: further simplify __gup_device

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Message-ID: <20210916083509.GB10610@quack2.suse.cz>
Date:   Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:35:09 +0200
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/gup: further simplify __gup_device_huge()

On Fri 03-09-21 17:42:24, John Hubbard wrote:
> commit 6401c4eb57f9 ("mm: gup: fix potential pgmap refcnt leak in
> __gup_device_huge()") simplified the return paths, but didn't go quite
> far enough, as discussed in [1].
> 
> Remove the "ret" variable entirely, because there is enough information
> already available to provide the return value.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgQTRX=5SkCmS+zfmpqubGHGJvXX_HgnPG8JSpHKHBMeg@mail.gmail.com
> 
> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>

Looks sane. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

								Honza

> ---
>  mm/gup.c | 5 +----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
> index 9935a4480710..6e62f1518c1f 100644
> --- a/mm/gup.c
> +++ b/mm/gup.c
> @@ -2241,7 +2241,6 @@ static int __gup_device_huge(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long addr,
>  {
>  	int nr_start = *nr;
>  	struct dev_pagemap *pgmap = NULL;
> -	int ret = 1;
>  
>  	do {
>  		struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
> @@ -2249,14 +2248,12 @@ static int __gup_device_huge(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long addr,
>  		pgmap = get_dev_pagemap(pfn, pgmap);
>  		if (unlikely(!pgmap)) {
>  			undo_dev_pagemap(nr, nr_start, flags, pages);
> -			ret = 0;
>  			break;
>  		}
>  		SetPageReferenced(page);
>  		pages[*nr] = page;
>  		if (unlikely(!try_grab_page(page, flags))) {
>  			undo_dev_pagemap(nr, nr_start, flags, pages);
> -			ret = 0;
>  			break;
>  		}
>  		(*nr)++;
> @@ -2264,7 +2261,7 @@ static int __gup_device_huge(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long addr,
>  	} while (addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
>  
>  	put_dev_pagemap(pgmap);
> -	return ret;
> +	return addr == end;
>  }
>  
>  static int __gup_device_huge_pmd(pmd_t orig, pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr,
> -- 
> 2.33.0
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR