[PATCH 4.14 42/43] futex: Update comments and docs about return values of arch futex code

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-07-02T08:11:30Z

From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

commit 427503519739e779c0db8afe876c1b33f3ac60ae upstream.

The architecture implementations of 'arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser()' and
'futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()' are permitted to return only -EFAULT,
-EAGAIN or -ENOSYS in the case of failure.

Update the comments in the asm-generic/ implementation and also a stray
reference in the robust futex documentation.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
Documentation/robust-futexes.txt | 3 +--
include/asm-generic/futex.h | 8 ++++++--
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt
@@ -218,5 +218,4 @@ All other architectures should build jus
the new syscalls yet.

Architectures need to implement the new futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
-inline function before writing up the syscalls (that function returns
--ENOSYS right now).
+inline function before writing up the syscalls.
--- a/include/asm-generic/futex.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/futex.h
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@
*
* Return:
* 0 - On success
- * <0 - On error
+ * -EFAULT - User access resulted in a page fault
+ * -EAGAIN - Atomic operation was unable to complete due to contention
+ * -ENOSYS - Operation not supported
*/
static inline int
arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser(int op, u32 oparg, int *oval, u32 __user *uaddr)
@@ -85,7 +87,9 @@ out_pagefault_enable:
*
* Return:
* 0 - On success
- * <0 - On error
+ * -EFAULT - User access resulted in a page fault
+ * -EAGAIN - Atomic operation was unable to complete due to contention
+ * -ENOSYS - Function not implemented (only if !HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG)
*/
static inline int
futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval, u32 __user *uaddr,