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mm/madvise: report SIGBUS as -EFAULT for MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE)
Doing some extended tests and polishing the man page update for MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE), I realized that we end up converting also SIGBUS (via -EFAULT) to -EINVAL, making it look like yet another madvise() user error. We want to report only problematic mappings and permission problems that the user could have know as -EINVAL. Let's not convert -EFAULT arising due to SIGBUS (or SIGSEGV) to -EINVAL, but instead indicate -EFAULT to user space. While we could also convert it to -ENOMEM, using -EFAULT looks more helpful when user space might want to troubleshoot what's going wrong: MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) is not part of an final Linux release and we can still adjust the behavior. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Fixes: 4ca9b38 ("mm/madvise: introduce MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) to prefault page tables") Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Jann Horn <[email protected]> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]> Cc: Matt Turner <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <[email protected]> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <[email protected]> Cc: Helge Deller <[email protected]> Cc: Chris Zankel <[email protected]> Cc: Max Filippov <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Xu <[email protected]> Cc: Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]> Cc: Ram Pai <[email protected]> Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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mm/gup.c

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@@ -1558,9 +1558,12 @@ long faultin_vma_page_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
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gup_flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
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/*
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* See check_vma_flags(): Will return -EFAULT on incompatible mappings
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* or with insufficient permissions.
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* We want to report -EINVAL instead of -EFAULT for any permission
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* problems or incompatible mappings.
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*/
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if (check_vma_flags(vma, gup_flags))
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return -EINVAL;
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return __get_user_pages(mm, start, nr_pages, gup_flags,
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NULL, NULL, locked);
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}

mm/madvise.c

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@@ -862,10 +862,12 @@ static long madvise_populate(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
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switch (pages) {
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case -EINTR:
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return -EINTR;
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case -EFAULT: /* Incompatible mappings / permissions. */
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case -EINVAL: /* Incompatible mappings / permissions. */
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return -EINVAL;
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case -EHWPOISON:
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return -EHWPOISON;
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case -EFAULT: /* VM_FAULT_SIGBUS or VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV */
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return -EFAULT;
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default:
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pr_warn_once("%s: unhandled return value: %ld\n",
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__func__, pages);

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