From: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: madvise: skip unmapped vma holes passed to process_madvise The process_madvise() system call is expected to skip holes in vma passed through 'struct iovec' vector list. But do_madvise, which process_madvise() calls for each vma, returns ENOMEM in case of unmapped holes, despite the VMA is processed. Thus process_madvise() should treat ENOMEM as expected and consider the VMA passed to as processed and continue processing other vma's in the vector list. Returning -ENOMEM to user, despite the VMA is processed, will be unable to figure out where to start the next madvise. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4f091776142f2ebf7b94018146de72318474e686.1647008754.git.quic_charante@xxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: ecb8ac8b1f14("mm/madvise: introduce process_madvise() syscall: an external memory hinting API") Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/madvise.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/madvise.c~mm-madvise-skip-unmapped-vma-holes-passed-to-process_madvise +++ a/mm/madvise.c @@ -1428,9 +1428,16 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(process_madvise, int, pi while (iov_iter_count(&iter)) { iovec = iov_iter_iovec(&iter); + /* + * do_madvise returns ENOMEM if unmapped holes are present + * in the passed VMA. process_madvise() is expected to skip + * unmapped holes passed to it in the 'struct iovec' list + * and not fail because of them. Thus treat -ENOMEM return + * from do_madvise as valid and continue processing. + */ ret = do_madvise(mm, (unsigned long)iovec.iov_base, iovec.iov_len, behavior); - if (ret < 0) + if (ret < 0 && ret != -ENOMEM) break; iov_iter_advance(&iter, iovec.iov_len); } _
