The patch titled
Subject: hugetlb: Fix an error code in hugetlb_reserve_pages()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
hugetlb-fix-an-error-code-in-hugetlb_reserve_pages.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/hugetlb-fix-an-error-code-in-hugetlb_reserve_pages.patch
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https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/hugetlb-fix-an-error-code-in-hugetlb_reserve_pages.patch
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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: hugetlb: Fix an error code in hugetlb_reserve_pages()
Preserve the error code from region_add() instead of returning success.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/X9NGZWnZl5/Mt99R@mwanda
Fixes: 0db9d74ed884 ("hugetlb: disable region_add file_region coalescing")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c~hugetlb-fix-an-error-code-in-hugetlb_reserve_pages
+++ a/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -5113,6 +5113,7 @@ int hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *
if (unlikely(add < 0)) {
hugetlb_acct_memory(h, -gbl_reserve);
+ ret = add;
goto out_put_pages;
} else if (unlikely(chg > add)) {
/*
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are
hugetlb-fix-an-error-code-in-hugetlb_reserve_pages.patch
