From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24AE6C3527E for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2022 14:21:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S238524AbiDEOUg (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2022 10:20:36 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:53906 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S239725AbiDEJeA (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2022 05:34:00 -0400 Received: from sin.source.kernel.org (sin.source.kernel.org [145.40.73.55]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0574A7DA8C; Tue, 5 Apr 2022 02:23:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sin.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F3B93CE1C78; Tue, 5 Apr 2022 09:23:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D068DC385A0; Tue, 5 Apr 2022 09:23:07 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1649150588; bh=Cx5L+u3zeAs8deNWRcmU5/WrIwgYWoTaZ/7o2gEtJ7Q=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=U+U+CMcxQN5NTDoHd10LhqhUYdx6BlKFD04nSjU1bkXP+rWvxuJHgDCKDaGT6N1R3 UUHqG5RprphpiP0i+AlfqtZf6h3ry5vCWL2/24w4xJ+BLN6nw54ru/F2yLBKwLoLfW fTg9SU7SXEwFfhoTB7Mavz2QZEppiYaSrRaA5gvo= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Charan Teja Kalla , Suren Baghdasaryan , Vlastimil Babka , David Rientjes , Stephen Rothwell , Minchan Kim , Nadav Amit , Michal Hocko , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: [PATCH 5.15 108/913] mm: madvise: return correct bytes advised with process_madvise Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 09:19:30 +0200 Message-Id: <20220405070343.064309939@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.35.1 In-Reply-To: <20220405070339.801210740@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20220405070339.801210740@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Charan Teja Kalla commit 5bd009c7c9a9e888077c07535dc0c70aeab242c3 upstream. Patch series "mm: madvise: return correct bytes processed with process_madvise", v2. With the process_madvise(), always choose to return non zero processed bytes over an error. This can help the user to know on which VMA, passed in the 'struct iovec' vector list, is failed to advise thus can take the decission of retrying/skipping on that VMA. This patch (of 2): The process_madvise() system call returns error even after processing some VMA's passed in the 'struct iovec' vector list which leaves the user confused to know where to restart the advise next. It is also against this syscall man page[1] documentation where it mentions that "return value may be less than the total number of requested bytes, if an error occurred after some iovec elements were already processed.". Consider a user passed 10 VMA's in the 'struct iovec' vector list of which 9 are processed but one. Then it just returns the error caused on that failed VMA despite the first 9 VMA's processed, leaving the user confused about on which VMA it is failed. Returning the number of bytes processed here can help the user to know which VMA it is failed on and thus can retry/skip the advise on that VMA. [1]https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/process_madvise.2.html. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1647008754.git.quic_charante@quicinc.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/125b61a0edcee5c2db8658aed9d06a43a19ccafc.1647008754.git.quic_charante@quicinc.com Fixes: ecb8ac8b1f14("mm/madvise: introduce process_madvise() syscall: an external memory hinting API") Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Kalla Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Nadav Amit Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/madvise.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -1301,8 +1301,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(process_madvise, int, pi iov_iter_advance(&iter, iovec.iov_len); } - if (ret == 0) - ret = total_len - iov_iter_count(&iter); + ret = (total_len - iov_iter_count(&iter)) ? : ret; release_mm: mmput(mm);