From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 5cd401ace914dc68556c6d2fcae0c349444d5f86 ] walk_system_ram_range() can return an error code either becuase *it* failed, or because the 'func' that it calls returned an error. The memory hotplug does the following: ret = walk_system_ram_range(..., func); if (ret) return ret; and 'ret' makes it out to userspace, eventually. The problem s, walk_system_ram_range() failues that result from *it* failing (as opposed to 'func') return -1. That leads to a very odd -EPERM (-1) return code out to userspace. Make walk_system_ram_range() return -EINVAL for internal failures to keep userspace less confused. This return code is compatible with all the callers that I audited. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (powerpc) Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-nvdimm@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Cc: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/resource.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c index 915c02e8e5dd..ca7ed5158cff 100644 --- a/kernel/resource.c +++ b/kernel/resource.c @@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ static int __walk_iomem_res_desc(resource_size_t start, resource_size_t end, int (*func)(struct resource *, void *)) { struct resource res; - int ret = -1; + int ret = -EINVAL; while (start < end && !find_next_iomem_res(start, end, flags, desc, first_lvl, &res)) { @@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ int walk_system_ram_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages, unsigned long flags; struct resource res; unsigned long pfn, end_pfn; - int ret = -1; + int ret = -EINVAL; start = (u64) start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT; end = ((u64)(start_pfn + nr_pages) << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1; -- 2.19.1