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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] mm/hmm: hmm_range_fault() infinite loop
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 01:16:13PM -0700, Ralph Campbell wrote:
>
> On 8/27/19 11:41 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 03:17:53PM -0700, Ralph Campbell wrote:
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
> > > mm/hmm.c | 3 +++
> > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
> > > index 29371485fe94..4882b83aeccb 100644
> > > +++ b/mm/hmm.c
> > > @@ -292,6 +292,9 @@ static int hmm_vma_walk_hole_(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
> > > hmm_vma_walk->last = addr;
> > > i = (addr - range->start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> > > + if (write_fault && walk->vma && !(walk->vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
> > > + return -EPERM;
> >
> > Can walk->vma be NULL here? hmm_vma_do_fault() touches it
> > unconditionally.
> >
> > Jason
> >
> walk->vma can be NULL. hmm_vma_do_fault() no longer touches it
> unconditionally, that is what the preceding patch fixes.
> I suppose I could change hmm_vma_walk_hole_() to check for NULL
> and fill in the pfns[] array, I just chose to handle it in
> hmm_vma_do_fault().

Okay, yes maybe long term it would be clearer to do the vma null check
closer to the start of the callback, but this is a good enough bug fix

Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>

Jason

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