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* [merged mm-hotfixes-stable] userfaultfd-reset-err-to-be-0-when-move_pages_ptes-succeeded.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2026-08-27 20:08 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-08-27 20:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mm-commits, surenb, stable, rppt, peterx, foxieflakey, akpm


The quilt patch titled
     Subject: userfaultfd: reset err to be 0 when move_pages_ptes succeeded
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     userfaultfd-reset-err-to-be-0-when-move_pages_ptes-succeeded.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Bryan Lim <foxieflakey@gmail.com>
Subject: userfaultfd: reset err to be 0 when move_pages_ptes succeeded
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:08:24 +0700 (WIB)

During move_pages() operation, when move_pages_ptes() returns EAGAIN, the
error code is not cleared even after we processed it.  This leads to a
successful retry but then the same pages are retried again due to the
stale error code.  This time move fails because pages are already moved,
loop is terminated and move_pages() reports a failure.  Clear the error
code once we processes EAGAIN.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/e1e0b5f8-c3c6-0537-670b-4397f822f980@gmail.com
Fixes: 50944692052b ("userfaultfd: opportunistic TLB-flush batching for present pages in MOVE")
Assisted-by: ChatGPT:GPT-5.6-Luna
Signed-off-by: Bryan Lim <foxieflakey@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/userfaultfd.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c~userfaultfd-reset-err-to-be-0-when-move_pages_ptes-succeeded
+++ a/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -2171,8 +2171,10 @@ static ssize_t move_pages(struct userfau
 		}
 
 		if (err) {
-			if (err == -EAGAIN)
+			if (err == -EAGAIN) {
+				err = 0;
 				continue;
+			}
 			break;
 		}
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from foxieflakey@gmail.com are



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