The patch titled
Subject: lib/test_hmm.c: fix an error code in dmirror_allocate_chunk()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-hmm-test-fix-an-error-code-in-dmirror_allocate_chunk.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-hmm-test-fix-an-error-code-in-dmirror_allocate_chunk.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-hmm-test-fix-an-error-code-in-dmirror_allocate_chunk.patch
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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: lib/test_hmm.c: fix an error code in dmirror_allocate_chunk()
This is supposed to return false on failure, not a negative error code.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201010200812.GA1886610@mwanda
Fixes: 170e38548b81 ("mm/hmm/test: use after free in dmirror_allocate_chunk()")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/test_hmm.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/lib/test_hmm.c~mm-hmm-test-fix-an-error-code-in-dmirror_allocate_chunk
+++ a/lib/test_hmm.c
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ static bool dmirror_allocate_chunk(struc
devmem = kzalloc(sizeof(*devmem), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!devmem)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ return false;
res = request_free_mem_region(&iomem_resource, DEVMEM_CHUNK_SIZE,
"hmm_dmirror");
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-memremap_pages-convert-to-struct-range-fix.patch
mm-hmm-test-fix-an-error-code-in-dmirror_allocate_chunk.patch
