From: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
To: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chenghao Duan <duanchenghao@kylinos.cn>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/memfd_luo: report error when restoring a folio fails mid-loop
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:23:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260415052300.362539-1-devnexen@gmail.com> (raw)
memfd_luo_retrieve_folios() initialises err to -EIO, but the per-iteration
calls to mem_cgroup_charge(), shmem_add_to_page_cache() and
shmem_inode_acct_blocks() reuse and overwrite err. Once any iteration
completes successfully, err becomes zero.
If a later iteration's kho_restore_folio() returns NULL, the failure path
jumps to put_folios without resetting err, so the function returns 0.
The caller memfd_luo_retrieve() then takes the success path, sets
args->file and reports the restore as successful, leaving userspace with
a partially populated memfd and no indication that anything went wrong.
Set err to -EIO in the kho_restore_folio() failure branch so the error
is propagated to the caller.
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
---
mm/memfd_luo.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/mm/memfd_luo.c b/mm/memfd_luo.c
index b02b503c750d..35d1247281e0 100644
--- a/mm/memfd_luo.c
+++ b/mm/memfd_luo.c
@@ -427,6 +427,7 @@ static int memfd_luo_retrieve_folios(struct file *file,
if (!folio) {
pr_err("Unable to restore folio at physical address: %llx\n",
phys);
+ err = -EIO;
goto put_folios;
}
index = pfolio->index;
--
2.53.0
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