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Date:   Mon, 8 May 2023 09:44:35 +0800
From:   Tong Tiangen <tongtiangen@...wei.com>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, <x86@...nel.org>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:     <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>,
        Guohanjun <guohanjun@...wei.com>,
        Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@...wei.com>,
        Tong Tiangen <tongtiangen@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH -next v9 4/5] mm/hwpoison: return -EFAULT when copy fail in copy_mc_[user]_highpage()

If hardware errors are encountered during page copying, returning the bytes
not copied is not meaningful, and the caller cannot do any processing on
the remaining data. Returning -EFAULT is more reasonable, which represents
a hardware error encountered during the copying.

Signed-off-by: Tong Tiangen <tongtiangen@...wei.com>
---
 include/linux/highmem.h | 8 ++++----
 mm/khugepaged.c         | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/highmem.h b/include/linux/highmem.h
index 4de1dbcd3ef6..c29f51ea8517 100644
--- a/include/linux/highmem.h
+++ b/include/linux/highmem.h
@@ -335,8 +335,8 @@ static inline void copy_highpage(struct page *to, struct page *from)
 /*
  * If architecture supports machine check exception handling, define the
  * #MC versions of copy_user_highpage and copy_highpage. They copy a memory
- * page with #MC in source page (@from) handled, and return the number
- * of bytes not copied if there was a #MC, otherwise 0 for success.
+ * page with #MC in source page (@from) handled, and return -EFAULT if there
+ * was a #MC, otherwise 0 for success.
  */
 static inline int copy_mc_user_highpage(struct page *to, struct page *from,
 					unsigned long vaddr, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ static inline int copy_mc_user_highpage(struct page *to, struct page *from,
 	kunmap_local(vto);
 	kunmap_local(vfrom);
 
-	return ret;
+	return ret ? -EFAULT : 0;
 }
 
 static inline int copy_mc_highpage(struct page *to, struct page *from)
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ static inline int copy_mc_highpage(struct page *to, struct page *from)
 	kunmap_local(vto);
 	kunmap_local(vfrom);
 
-	return ret;
+	return ret ? -EFAULT : 0;
 }
 #else
 static inline int copy_mc_user_highpage(struct page *to, struct page *from,
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 6b9d39d65b73..ef8b70377292 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -805,7 +805,7 @@ static int __collapse_huge_page_copy(pte_t *pte,
 			continue;
 		}
 		src_page = pte_page(pteval);
-		if (copy_mc_user_highpage(page, src_page, _address, vma) > 0) {
+		if (copy_mc_user_highpage(page, src_page, _address, vma)) {
 			result = SCAN_COPY_MC;
 			break;
 		}
@@ -2140,7 +2140,7 @@ static int collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 			clear_highpage(hpage + (index % HPAGE_PMD_NR));
 			index++;
 		}
-		if (copy_mc_highpage(hpage + (page->index % HPAGE_PMD_NR), page) > 0) {
+		if (copy_mc_highpage(hpage + (page->index % HPAGE_PMD_NR), page)) {
 			result = SCAN_COPY_MC;
 			goto rollback;
 		}
-- 
2.25.1