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Re: [PATCH] userfaultfd_zeropage: return -ENOSPC in case mm has gone

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On Thu 27-07-17 09:26:59, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> In the non-cooperative userfaultfd case, the process exit may race with
> outstanding mcopy_atomic called by the uffd monitor.  Returning -ENOSPC
> instead of -EINVAL when mm is already gone will allow uffd monitor to
> distinguish this case from other error conditions.

Normally we tend to return ESRCH in such case. ENOSPC sounds rather
confusing...
 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 96333187ab162 ("userfaultfd_copy: return -ENOSPC in case mm has gone")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> 
> Unfortunately, I've overlooked userfaultfd_zeropage when I updated
> userfaultd_copy :(
> 
>  fs/userfaultfd.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/userfaultfd.c b/fs/userfaultfd.c
> index cadcd12a3d35..2d8c2d848668 100644
> --- a/fs/userfaultfd.c
> +++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c
> @@ -1643,6 +1643,8 @@ static int userfaultfd_zeropage(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
>  		ret = mfill_zeropage(ctx->mm, uffdio_zeropage.range.start,
>  				     uffdio_zeropage.range.len);
>  		mmput(ctx->mm);
> +	} else {
> +		return -ENOSPC;
>  	}
>  	if (unlikely(put_user(ret, &user_uffdio_zeropage->zeropage)))
>  		return -EFAULT;
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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[PATCH] userfaultfd_zeropage: return -ENOSPC in case mm has gone Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-07-27 08:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] userfaultfd_zeropage: return -ENOSPC in case mm has gone Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-07-31 14:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] userfaultfd_zeropage: return -ENOSPC in case mm has gone Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> - 2017-07-31 15:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] userfaultfd_zeropage: return -ENOSPC in case mm has gone Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-07-31 15:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] userfaultfd_zeropage: return -ENOSPC in case mm has gone Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-08-02 14:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] userfaultfd_zeropage: return -ENOSPC in case mm has gone "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com> - 2017-08-02 15:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] userfaultfd_zeropage: return -ENOSPC in case mm has gone Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> - 2017-08-02 18:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] userfaultfd_zeropage: return -ENOSPC in case mm has gone Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-08-02 18:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] userfaultfd_zeropage: return -ENOSPC in case mm has gone Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> - 2017-08-02 18:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] userfaultfd_zeropage: return -ENOSPC in case mm has gone Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-08-03 19:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] userfaultfd_zeropage: return -ENOSPC in case mm has gone Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> - 2017-08-03 23:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] userfaultfd_zeropage: return -ENOSPC in case mm has gone Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-07-31 15:40 +0200

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