+ mm-gup-remove-unneeded-checking-in-follow_page_pte.patch added to mm-new branch

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm/gup: remove unneeded checking in follow_page_pte()
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     mm-gup-remove-unneeded-checking-in-follow_page_pte.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-gup-remove-unneeded-checking-in-follow_page_pte.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-new branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Subject: mm/gup: remove unneeded checking in follow_page_pte()
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 11:03:05 +0800

In __get_user_pages(), it will traverse page table and take a reference to
the page the given user address corresponds to if GUP_GET or GUP_PIN is
set.  However, it's not supported both GUP_GET and GUP_PIN are set.  Even
though this check need be done, it should be done earlier, but not doing
it till entering into follow_page_pte() and failed.

Furthermore, this checking has been done in is_valid_gup_args() and all
external users of __get_user_pages() will call is_valid_gup_args() to
catch the illegal setting.  We don't need to worry about internal users of
__get_user_pages() because the gup_flags are set by MM code correctly.

Here remove the checking in follow_page_pte(), and add VM_WARN_ON_ONCE()
to catch the possible exceptional setting just in case.

And also change the VM_BUG_ON to VM_WARN_ON_ONCE() for checking (!!pages
!= !!(gup_flags & (FOLL_GET | FOLL_PIN))) because the checking has been
done in is_valid_gup_args() for external users of __get_user_pages().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250407030306.411977-3-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Yanjun.Zhu <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/gup.c |   11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/gup.c~mm-gup-remove-unneeded-checking-in-follow_page_pte
+++ a/mm/gup.c
@@ -844,11 +844,6 @@ static struct page *follow_page_pte(stru
 	pte_t *ptep, pte;
 	int ret;
 
-	/* FOLL_GET and FOLL_PIN are mutually exclusive. */
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE((flags & (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_GET)) ==
-			 (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_GET)))
-		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
-
 	ptep = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, address, &ptl);
 	if (!ptep)
 		return no_page_table(vma, flags, address);
@@ -1432,7 +1427,11 @@ static long __get_user_pages(struct mm_s
 
 	start = untagged_addr_remote(mm, start);
 
-	VM_BUG_ON(!!pages != !!(gup_flags & (FOLL_GET | FOLL_PIN)));
+	VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!!pages != !!(gup_flags & (FOLL_GET | FOLL_PIN)));
+
+	/* FOLL_GET and FOLL_PIN are mutually exclusive. */
+	VM_WARN_ON_ONCE((gup_flags & (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_GET)) ==
+			(FOLL_PIN | FOLL_GET));
 
 	do {
 		struct page *page;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from bhe@redhat.com are

maintainers-add-andrew-and-myself-as-kexec-maintainer.patch
mm-gup-fix-wrongly-calculated-returned-value-in-fault_in_safe_writeable.patch
mm-gup-remove-unneeded-checking-in-follow_page_pte.patch
mm-gup-remove-gup_fast_pgd_leaf-and-clean-up-the-relevant-codes.patch