Re: [PATCH] mm: pagewalk: call pte_hole() for VM_PFNMAP during walk_page_range

[Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:43:13AM +0530, Shiraz Hashim wrote:
> walk_page_range silently skips vma having VM_PFNMAP set,
> which leads to undesirable behaviour at client end (who
> called walk_page_range). For example for pagemap_read,
> when no callbacks are called against VM_PFNMAP vma,
> pagemap_read may prepare pagemap data for next virtual
> address range at wrong index.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shiraz Hashim <shashim@codeaurora.org>

Thank you!

Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>

> ---
> The fix is revised, based upon the suggestion here at
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg83058.html
> 
>  mm/pagewalk.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/pagewalk.c b/mm/pagewalk.c
> index ad83195..b264bda 100644
> --- a/mm/pagewalk.c
> +++ b/mm/pagewalk.c
> @@ -199,7 +199,10 @@ int walk_page_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
>  			 */
>  			if ((vma->vm_start <= addr) &&
>  			    (vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP)) {
> -				next = vma->vm_end;
> +				if (walk->pte_hole)
> +					err = walk->pte_hole(addr, next, walk);
> +				if (err)
> +					break;
>  				pgd = pgd_offset(walk->mm, next);
>  				continue;
>  			}
> -- 
> Shiraz Hashim
> 
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