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Date: Sun, 28 May 2023 16:13:44 +0100
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [suggestion] mm/gup: avoid IS_ERR_OR_NULL
On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 06:52:01AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 10:12:40AM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > > No, this returning 0 on failure is a foot gun. Failing to pin a single
> > > page is always an error, the only question is what sub reason caused
> > > the error to happen. There is no third case where it is not an error.
> >
> > The uprobe path thinks otherwise, but maybe the answer is that we just need
> > to -EFAULT on missing VMA and -EPERM on invalid flags.
>
> I think uprobe is just broken to think there is a third outcome. Let's
> just fix it instead of trying to pretend it makes sense.
Sure, will take a look at that if I get a chance. We can at the very least
adjust get_user_page_vma_remote() with this fixed.
Do you feel that a partially successful pinning for other GUP callers
should equally be treated as an error (and pages unpinned -> return error
code)? In that instance we'd need to audit things somewhat.
I have a couple more GUP cleanups saved up, so could add that to my queue
of things to look at between book work :)
>
> Jason
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