Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: Check absolute error return from vmap_[p4d|pud|pmd|pte]_range()

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On 2019-06-13 10:12, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
vmap_pte_range() returns an -EBUSY when it encounters a non-empty PTE. But currently vmap_pmd_range() unifies both -EBUSY and -ENOMEM return code as -ENOMEM and send it up the call chain which is wrong. Interestingly enough vmap_page_range_noflush() tests for the absolute error return value from vmap_p4d_range() but it does not help because -EBUSY has been merged with -ENOMEM. So all it can return is -ENOMEM. Fix this by testing for absolute
error return from vmap_pmd_range() all the way up to vmap_p4d_range().

I could not find any real external caller of vmap API who really cares
about the errno, and frankly why they should?  This is allocation path,
allocation failed - game over.  When you step on -EBUSY case something
has gone completely wrong in your kernel, you get a big warning in
your dmesg and it is already does not matter what errno you get.

--
Roman




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