From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
dan.j.williams@intel.com, dave.jiang@intel.com,
zwisler@kernel.org, vishal.l.verma@intel.com,
thomas.lendacky@amd.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
mhocko@suse.com, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
ying.huang@intel.com, fengguang.wu@intel.com, bp@suse.de,
bhelgaas@google.com, baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com,
tiwai@suse.de, jglisse@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] mm/resource: return real error codes from walk failures
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:14:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190124231442.EFD29EE0@viggo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190124231441.37A4A305@viggo.jf.intel.com>
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
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 is,
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@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@kernel.org>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
---
b/kernel/resource.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN kernel/resource.c~memory-hotplug-walk_system_ram_range-returns-neg-1 kernel/resource.c
--- a/kernel/resource.c~memory-hotplug-walk_system_ram_range-returns-neg-1 2019-01-24 15:13:13.950199540 -0800
+++ b/kernel/resource.c 2019-01-24 15:13:13.954199540 -0800
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ static int __walk_iomem_res_desc(resourc
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)) {
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ int walk_system_ram_range(unsigned long
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;
_
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dave Hansen
<dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,dan.j.williams@intel.com,dave.jiang@intel.com,zwisler@kernel.org,vishal.l.verma@intel.com,thomas.lendacky@amd.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org,mhocko@suse.com,linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org,linux-mm@kvack.org,ying.huang@intel.com,fengguang.wu@intel.com,bp@suse.de,bhelgaas@google.com,baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com,tiwai@suse.de,jglisse@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] mm/resource: return real error codes from walk failures
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:14:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190124231442.EFD29EE0@viggo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20190124231442.nxK9Q5skw9xYfDEBEqPCW-ZSrdnirOyL_2UVFLDC-a8@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190124231441.37A4A305@viggo.jf.intel.com>
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
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 is,
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@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@kernel.org>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
---
b/kernel/resource.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN kernel/resource.c~memory-hotplug-walk_system_ram_range-returns-neg-1 kernel/resource.c
--- a/kernel/resource.c~memory-hotplug-walk_system_ram_range-returns-neg-1 2019-01-24 15:13:13.950199540 -0800
+++ b/kernel/resource.c 2019-01-24 15:13:13.954199540 -0800
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ static int __walk_iomem_res_desc(resourc
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)) {
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ int walk_system_ram_range(unsigned long
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;
_
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-24 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-24 23:14 [PATCH 0/5] [v4] Allow persistent memory to be used like normal RAM Dave Hansen
2019-01-24 23:14 ` Dave Hansen
2019-01-24 23:14 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2019-01-24 23:14 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm/resource: return real error codes from walk failures Dave Hansen
2019-01-25 21:02 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-01-25 21:02 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-01-25 21:09 ` Dave Hansen
2019-01-25 21:19 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-01-25 21:19 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-01-29 1:18 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-01-24 23:14 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm/resource: move HMM pr_debug() deeper into resource code Dave Hansen
2019-01-24 23:14 ` Dave Hansen
2019-01-25 19:07 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-25 21:18 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-01-25 21:18 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-01-25 21:24 ` Dave Hansen
2019-01-29 1:34 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-01-24 23:14 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm/memory-hotplug: allow memory resources to be children Dave Hansen
2019-01-24 23:14 ` Dave Hansen
2019-01-24 23:14 ` [PATCH 4/5] dax/kmem: let walk_system_ram_range() search child resources Dave Hansen
2019-01-24 23:14 ` Dave Hansen
2019-01-24 23:14 ` [PATCH 5/5] dax: "Hotplug" persistent memory for use like normal RAM Dave Hansen
2019-01-24 23:14 ` Dave Hansen
2019-01-25 6:13 ` Jane Chu
2019-01-25 6:27 ` Dan Williams
2019-01-25 6:27 ` Dan Williams
2019-01-25 8:20 ` Du, Fan
2019-01-25 17:18 ` Dan Williams
2019-01-25 18:20 ` Verma, Vishal L
2019-01-25 19:10 ` Jane Chu
2019-01-25 19:15 ` Dan Williams
2019-01-25 19:15 ` Dan Williams
2019-01-25 23:30 ` Jane Chu
2019-01-28 9:25 ` Michal Hocko
2019-01-28 16:34 ` Dan Williams
2019-01-28 16:34 ` Dan Williams
2019-02-09 11:00 ` Brice Goglin
2019-02-11 16:22 ` Dave Hansen
2019-02-12 19:59 ` Brice Goglin
2019-02-13 0:30 ` Dan Williams
2019-02-13 8:12 ` Brice Goglin
2019-02-13 8:24 ` Dan Williams
2019-02-13 8:43 ` Brice Goglin
2019-02-13 13:06 ` Brice Goglin
2019-02-13 16:19 ` Dan Williams
2019-01-25 19:08 ` [PATCH 0/5] [v4] Allow persistent memory to be used " Jerome Glisse
2019-01-28 11:09 ` Balbir Singh
2019-01-28 16:50 ` Dave Hansen
2019-01-28 16:50 ` Dave Hansen
2019-02-25 18:57 [PATCH 0/5] [v5] " Dave Hansen
2019-02-25 18:57 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm/resource: return real error codes from walk failures Dave Hansen
2019-02-26 7:41 ` Christophe Leroy
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