linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/4] mm/gup: make failure to pin an error if FOLL

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Date:   Sun,  1 Oct 2023 17:00:04 +0100
From:   Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] mm/gup: make failure to pin an error if FOLL_NOWAIT not specified

There really should be no circumstances under which a non-FOLL_NOWAIT GUP
operation fails to return any pages, so make this an error.

To catch the trivial case, simply exit early if nr_pages == 0.

This brings __get_user_pages_locked() in line with the behaviour of its
nommu variant.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>
---
 mm/gup.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index b21b33d1787e..fb2218d74ca5 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -1471,6 +1471,9 @@ static __always_inline long __get_user_pages_locked(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	long ret, pages_done;
 	bool must_unlock = false;
 
+	if (!nr_pages)
+		return 0;
+
 	/*
 	 * The internal caller expects GUP to manage the lock internally and the
 	 * lock must be released when this returns.
@@ -1595,6 +1598,14 @@ static __always_inline long __get_user_pages_locked(struct mm_struct *mm,
 		mmap_read_unlock(mm);
 		*locked = 0;
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Failing to pin anything implies something has gone wrong except when
+	 * FOLL_NOWAIT is specified, so explicitly make this an error.
+	 */
+	if (pages_done == 0 && !(flags & FOLL_NOWAIT))
+		return -EFAULT;
+
 	return pages_done;
 }
 
-- 
2.42.0