The patch titled Subject: userfaultfd-add-dev-userfaultfd-for-fine-grained-access-control-v7 has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is userfaultfd-add-dev-userfaultfd-for-fine-grained-access-control-v7.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/userfaultfd-add-dev-userfaultfd-for-fine-grained-access-control-v7.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: userfaultfd-add-dev-userfaultfd-for-fine-grained-access-control-v7 Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 13:51:58 -0700 Handle misc_register() failure properly by propagating the error instead of just WARN_ON-ing. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220819205201.658693-3-axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy <glebfm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/userfaultfd.c | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/fs/userfaultfd.c~userfaultfd-add-dev-userfaultfd-for-fine-grained-access-control-v7 +++ a/fs/userfaultfd.c @@ -2114,11 +2114,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(userfaultfd, int, flags) return new_userfaultfd(flags); } -static int userfaultfd_dev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) -{ - return 0; -} - static long userfaultfd_dev_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long flags) { if (cmd != USERFAULTFD_IOC_NEW) @@ -2128,7 +2123,6 @@ static long userfaultfd_dev_ioctl(struct } static const struct file_operations userfaultfd_dev_fops = { - .open = userfaultfd_dev_open, .unlocked_ioctl = userfaultfd_dev_ioctl, .compat_ioctl = userfaultfd_dev_ioctl, .owner = THIS_MODULE, @@ -2143,7 +2137,11 @@ static struct miscdevice userfaultfd_mis static int __init userfaultfd_init(void) { - WARN_ON(misc_register(&userfaultfd_misc)); + int ret; + + ret = misc_register(&userfaultfd_misc); + if (ret) + return ret; userfaultfd_ctx_cachep = kmem_cache_create("userfaultfd_ctx_cache", sizeof(struct userfaultfd_ctx), _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx are selftests-vm-add-hugetlb_shared-userfaultfd-test-to-run_vmtestssh.patch userfaultfd-add-dev-userfaultfd-for-fine-grained-access-control.patch userfaultfd-add-dev-userfaultfd-for-fine-grained-access-control-v7.patch userfaultfd-selftests-modify-selftest-to-use-dev-userfaultfd.patch userfaultfd-selftests-modify-selftest-to-use-dev-userfaultfd-v7.patch userfaultfd-update-documentation-to-describe-dev-userfaultfd.patch userfaultfd-update-documentation-to-describe-dev-userfaultfd-v7.patch selftests-vm-add-dev-userfaultfd-test-cases-to-run_vmtestssh.patch