From 4fb23e439ce09157d64b89a21061b9fc08f2b495 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 16:01:50 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix up mm/mincore.c error value cases
Hugh Dickins correctly points out that mincore() is actually _supposed_
to fail on an unmapped hole in the user address space, rather than
return valid ("empty") information about the hole. This just simplifies
the problem further (I had been misled by our previous confusing and
complicated way of doing mincore()).
Also, in the unlikely situation that we can't allocate a temporary
kernel buffer, we should actually return EAGAIN, not ENOMEM, to keep the
"unmapped hole" and "allocation failure" error cases separate.
Finally, add a comment about our stupid historical lack of support for
anonymous mappings. I'll fix that if somebody reminds me after 2.6.20
is out.
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
mm/mincore.c | 29 ++++++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/mincore.c b/mm/mincore.c
index b44d7f875cb6..566b6c2bae5f 100644
--- a/mm/mincore.c
+++ b/mm/mincore.c
@@ -49,29 +49,20 @@ static long do_mincore(unsigned long addr, unsigned char *vec, unsigned long pag
struct vm_area_struct *vma = find_vma(current->mm, addr);
/*
- * find_vma() didn't find anything: the address
- * is above everything we have mapped.
+ * find_vma() didn't find anything above us, or we're
+ * in an unmapped hole in the address space: ENOMEM.
*/
- if (!vma) {
- memset(vec, 0, pages);
- return pages;
- }
-
- /*
- * find_vma() found something, but we might be
- * below it: check for that.
- */
- if (addr < vma->vm_start) {
- unsigned long gap = (vma->vm_start - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
- if (gap > pages)
- gap = pages;
- memset(vec, 0, gap);
- return gap;
- }
+ if (!vma || addr < vma->vm_start)
+ return -ENOMEM;
/*
* Ok, got it. But check whether it's a segment we support
* mincore() on. Right now, we don't do any anonymous mappings.
+ *
+ * FIXME: This is just stupid. And returning ENOMEM is
+ * stupid too. We should just look at the page tables. But
+ * this is what we've traditionally done, so we'll just
+ * continue doing it.
*/
if (!vma->vm_file)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -142,7 +133,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_mincore(unsigned long start, size_t len,
tmp = (void *) __get_free_page(GFP_USER);
if (!tmp)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ return -EAGAIN;
retval = 0;
while (pages) {