The patch titled Subject: mm/gup: make failure to pin an error if FOLL_NOWAIT not specified has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-gup-make-failure-to-pin-an-error-if-foll_nowait-not-specified.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-gup-make-failure-to-pin-an-error-if-foll_nowait-not-specified.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: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/gup: make failure to pin an error if FOLL_NOWAIT not specified Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2023 00:14:53 +0100 There really should be no circumstances under which a non-FOLL_NOWAIT GUP operation fails to return any pages, so make this an error and warn on it. To catch the trivial case, simply exit early if nr_pages == 0. This brings __get_user_pages_locked() in line with the behaviour of its nommu variant. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2a42d96dd1e37163f90a0019a541163dafb7e4c3.1696288092.git.lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/gup.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) --- a/mm/gup.c~mm-gup-make-failure-to-pin-an-error-if-foll_nowait-not-specified +++ a/mm/gup.c @@ -1471,6 +1471,9 @@ static __always_inline long __get_user_p long ret, pages_done; bool must_unlock = false; + if (!nr_pages) + return 0; + /* * The internal caller expects GUP to manage the lock internally and the * lock must be released when this returns. @@ -1595,6 +1598,14 @@ retry: mmap_read_unlock(mm); *locked = 0; } + + /* + * Failing to pin anything implies something has gone wrong (except when + * FOLL_NOWAIT is specified). + */ + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(pages_done == 0 && !(flags & FOLL_NOWAIT))) + return -EFAULT; + return pages_done; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx are mm-refactor-si_mem_available.patch mm-filemap-clarify-filemap_fault-comments-for-not-uptodate-case.patch mm-filemap-clarify-filemap_fault-comments-for-not-uptodate-case-fix.patch mm-make-__access_remote_vm-static.patch mm-gup-explicitly-define-and-check-internal-gup-flags-disallow-foll_touch.patch mm-gup-make-failure-to-pin-an-error-if-foll_nowait-not-specified.patch mm-gup-adapt-get_user_page_vma_remote-to-never-return-null.patch