On Tue 08-08-17 09:08:17, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> (adding Michal)
Thanks
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 04:12:25PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > When the process exit races with outstanding mcopy_atomic, it would be
> > better to return ESRCH error. When such race occurs the process and it's mm
> > are going away and returning "no such process" to the uffd monitor seems
> > better fit than ENOSPC.
Not only the error message would be less confusing I also think that
error handling should be more straightforward. Although I cannot find
any guidelines for ENOSPC handling I've considered this errno as
potentially temporary and retry might be feasible while ESRCH is a
terminal error. I do not expect any userfaultfd users would retry on
error but who knows how the interface will be used in future so better
be prepared.
> > Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > The man-pages update is ready and I'll send it out once the patch is
> > merged.
> >
> > fs/userfaultfd.c | 4 ++--
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/userfaultfd.c b/fs/userfaultfd.c
> > index 06ea26b8c996..b0d5897bc4e6 100644
> > --- a/fs/userfaultfd.c
> > +++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c
> > @@ -1600,7 +1600,7 @@ static int userfaultfd_copy(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
> > uffdio_copy.len);
> > mmput(ctx->mm);
> > } else {
> > - return -ENOSPC;
> > + return -ESRCH;
> > }
> > if (unlikely(put_user(ret, &user_uffdio_copy->copy)))
> > return -EFAULT;
> > @@ -1647,7 +1647,7 @@ static int userfaultfd_zeropage(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
> > uffdio_zeropage.range.len);
> > mmput(ctx->mm);
> > } else {
> > - return -ENOSPC;
> > + return -ESRCH;
> > }
> > if (unlikely(put_user(ret, &user_uffdio_zeropage->zeropage)))
> > return -EFAULT;
> > --
> > 2.7.4
> >
>
> --
> Sincerely yours,
> Mike.
>
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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