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From: Foxie Flakey <foxieflakey@gmail.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] userfaultfd: reset err when move_pages_ptes succeeded
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:34:54 +0700 (WIB)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <db93293b-2e02-7ca9-2f92-f52447d2849c@gmail.com> (raw)


When UFFDIO_MOVE moves non huge pages and temporarily fails, then the outer
loop retries again and succeeded but in that path "err" isn't reset to 0.
Later, when checked for EAGAIN error, the loop mistakenly retries moving
same page again which will fail because its already moved.

When the UFFDIO_MOVE returned, this is what userspace observed.

Source:      [ .. unmapped  .. ][ .. mapped    ..]
Destination: [ .. mapped    .. ][ .. unmapped  ..]
                          ^     ^
                          \     Kernel moved this far in actuality
                           What is reported to userspace on struct
                           uffdio_move's move field

When the previous behaviour is
Source:      [ .. unmapped  .. ][ .. mapped    ..]
Destination: [ .. mapped    .. ][ .. unmapped  ..]
                                ^
                                Reported to user space via uffdio_move's
                                move field

Fixes: 50944692052b ("userfaultfd: opportunistic TLB-flush batching for present pages in MOVE")
Signed-off-by: Foxie Flakey <foxieflakey@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: ChatGPT:GPT-5.6-Luna
---
 mm/userfaultfd.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
index c3adedaaf7d5..595e7e232f90 100644
--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -2069,10 +2069,12 @@ static ssize_t move_pages(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx, unsigned long dst_start,
 			ret = move_pages_ptes(mm, dst_pmd, src_pmd,
 					      dst_vma, src_vma, dst_addr,
 					      src_addr, src_end - src_addr, mode);
-			if (ret < 0)
+			if (ret < 0) {
 				err = ret;
-			else
+			} else {
+				err = 0;
 				step_size = ret;
+			}
 		}

 		cond_resched();

base-commit: 62cc90241548d5570ee68e01aaba6506964e9811
-- 
2.55.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-15 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-15 12:34 Foxie Flakey [this message]
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2026-08-15 14:11 [PATCH] userfaultfd: reset err when move_pages_ptes succeeded Foxie Flakey
2026-08-15 14:13 Foxie Flakey
2026-08-15 15:50 ` Ali Nasrolahi
2026-08-15 16:05   ` Foxie Flakey

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