This part is overlooked when reworking the gup code on multiple retries. When we get the 2nd+ retry, we'll be with TRIED flag set. Current code will bail out on the 2nd retry because the !TRIED check will fail so the retry logic will be skipped. What's worse is that, it will also return zero which errornously hints the caller that the page is faulted in while it's not. The !TRIED flag check seems to not be needed even before the mutliple retries change because if we get a VM_FAULT_RETRY, it must be the 1st retry, and we should not have TRIED set for that. Fix it by removing the !TRIED check, at the meantime check against fatal signals properly before the page fault so we can still properly respond to the user killing the process during retries. CC: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 4426e945df58 ("mm/gup: allow VM_FAULT_RETRY for multiple times") Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> --- I don't have a case to trigger the problem, so I only smoke tested the patch. However I think this should be the right thing to do... Please have a look, thanks. --- mm/gup.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c index 50681f0286de..87a6a59fe667 100644 --- a/mm/gup.c +++ b/mm/gup.c @@ -1218,6 +1218,10 @@ int fixup_user_fault(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, if (!vma_permits_fault(vma, fault_flags)) return -EFAULT; + if ((fault_flags & FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE) && + fatal_signal_pending(current)) + return -EINTR; + ret = handle_mm_fault(vma, address, fault_flags); major |= ret & VM_FAULT_MAJOR; if (ret & VM_FAULT_ERROR) { @@ -1230,11 +1234,9 @@ int fixup_user_fault(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, if (ret & VM_FAULT_RETRY) { down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - if (!(fault_flags & FAULT_FLAG_TRIED)) { - *unlocked = true; - fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED; - goto retry; - } + *unlocked = true; + fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED; + goto retry; } if (tsk) { -- 2.26.2