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mm: madvise: skip unmapped vma holes passed to process_madvise 

The process_madvise() system call is expected to skip holes in vma passed
through 'struct iovec' vector list.  But do_madvise, which
process_madvise() calls for each vma, returns ENOMEM in case of unmapped
holes, despite the VMA is processed.

Thus process_madvise() should treat ENOMEM as expected and consider the
VMA passed to as processed and continue processing other vma's in the
vector list.  Returning -ENOMEM to user, despite the VMA is processed,
will be unable to figure out where to start the next madvise.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4f091776142f2ebf7b94018146de72318474e686.1647008754.git.quic_charante@quicinc.com
Fixes: ecb8ac8b1f14("mm/madvise: introduce process_madvise() syscall: an external memory hinting API")
Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@quicinc.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Charan Teja Kalla 2022-03-22 14:46:48 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 5bd009c7c9
commit 08095d6310
1 changed files with 8 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -1428,9 +1428,16 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(process_madvise, int, pidfd, const struct iovec __user *, vec,
while (iov_iter_count(&iter)) {
iovec = iov_iter_iovec(&iter);
/*
* do_madvise returns ENOMEM if unmapped holes are present
* in the passed VMA. process_madvise() is expected to skip
* unmapped holes passed to it in the 'struct iovec' list
* and not fail because of them. Thus treat -ENOMEM return
* from do_madvise as valid and continue processing.
*/
ret = do_madvise(mm, (unsigned long)iovec.iov_base,
iovec.iov_len, behavior);
if (ret < 0)
if (ret < 0 && ret != -ENOMEM)
break;
iov_iter_advance(&iter, iovec.iov_len);
}