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Message-ID: <20250520175428.24ec47b7@p-imbrenda>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 17:54:28 +0200
From: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        James Houghton
 <jthoughton@...gle.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Ignacio Moreno Gonzalez <Ignacio.MorenoGonzalez@...a.com>,
        Yang Shi
 <yang@...amperecomputing.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        "Liam
 R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox
 <willy@...radead.org>,
        Janosch Frank <frankja@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Heiko
 Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>, Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Alexander
 Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>, pbonzini@...hat.com,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] KVM: s390: rename PROT_NONE to PROT_TYPE_DUMMY

On Tue, 20 May 2025 16:24:10 +0100
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 05:10:09PM +0200, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 May 2025 15:56:57 +0100
> > Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com> wrote:
> >  
> > > The enum type prot_type declared in arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c declares an
> > > unfortunate identifier within it - PROT_NONE.
> > >
> > > This clashes with the protection bit define from the uapi for mmap()
> > > declared in include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h, which is indeed what
> > > those casually reading this code would assume this to refer to.
> > >
> > > This means that any changes which subsequently alter headers in any way
> > > which results in the uapi header being imported here will cause build
> > > errors.
> > >
> > > Resolve the issue by renaming PROT_NONE to PROT_TYPE_DUMMY.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
> > > Suggested-by: Ignacio Moreno Gonzalez <Ignacio.MorenoGonzalez@...a.com>
> > > Fixes: b3cefd6bf16e ("KVM: s390: Pass initialized arg even if unused")
> > > Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> > > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> > > Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202505140943.IgHDa9s7-lkp@intel.com/
> > > Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>
> > > Acked-by: Ignacio Moreno Gonzalez <Ignacio.MorenoGonzalez@...a.com>
> > > Acked-by: Yang Shi <yang@...amperecomputing.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
> > > Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>  
> >
> > if you had put me in CC, you would have gotten this yesterday already:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>  
> 
> Thanks and apologies for not cc-ing you, clearly my mistake.
> 
> Though I would suggest your level of grumpiness here is a little over the
> top under the circumstances :) we maintainers must scale our grumpiness
> accordingly...

it was not meant to be grumpy, sorry if it came through that way!

> 
> >  
> > > ---
> > > Separated out from [0] as problem found in other patch in series.
> > >
> > > [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1747338438.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com/
> > >
> > >  arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c | 8 ++++----
> > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c b/arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c
> > > index f6fded15633a..4e5654ad1604 100644
> > > --- a/arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c
> > > +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c
> > > @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ enum prot_type {
> > >  	PROT_TYPE_DAT  = 3,
> > >  	PROT_TYPE_IEP  = 4,
> > >  	/* Dummy value for passing an initialized value when code != PGM_PROTECTION */
> > > -	PROT_NONE,
> > > +	PROT_TYPE_DUMMY,
> > >  };
> > >
> > >  static int trans_exc_ending(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int code, unsigned long gva, u8 ar,
> > > @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ static int trans_exc_ending(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int code, unsigned long gva,
> > >  	switch (code) {
> > >  	case PGM_PROTECTION:
> > >  		switch (prot) {
> > > -		case PROT_NONE:
> > > +		case PROT_TYPE_DUMMY:
> > >  			/* We should never get here, acts like termination */
> > >  			WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> > >  			break;
> > > @@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ static int guest_range_to_gpas(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long ga, u8 ar,
> > >  			gpa = kvm_s390_real_to_abs(vcpu, ga);
> > >  			if (!kvm_is_gpa_in_memslot(vcpu->kvm, gpa)) {
> > >  				rc = PGM_ADDRESSING;
> > > -				prot = PROT_NONE;
> > > +				prot = PROT_TYPE_DUMMY;
> > >  			}
> > >  		}
> > >  		if (rc)
> > > @@ -962,7 +962,7 @@ int access_guest_with_key(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long ga, u8 ar,
> > >  		if (rc == PGM_PROTECTION)
> > >  			prot = PROT_TYPE_KEYC;
> > >  		else
> > > -			prot = PROT_NONE;
> > > +			prot = PROT_TYPE_DUMMY;
> > >  		rc = trans_exc_ending(vcpu, rc, ga, ar, mode, prot, terminate);
> > >  	}
> > >  out_unlock:
> > > --
> > > 2.49.0
> > >  
> >