Messages in this thread | | | From | Souptick Joarder <> | Date | Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:58:32 +0530 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] xen/privcmd: Convert get_user_pages*() to pin_user_pages*() |
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:40 AM Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> wrote: > > On 6/22/20 2:52 PM, Souptick Joarder wrote: > > > > I read the code again. I think, this check is needed to handle a scenario when > > lock_pages() return -ENOSPC. Better to keep this check. Let me post v2 of this > > RFC for a clear view. > > > Actually, error handling seems to be somewhat broken here. If > lock_pages() returns number of pinned pages then that's what we end up > returning from privcmd_ioctl_dm_op(), all the way to user ioctl(). Which > I don't think is right, we should return proper (negative) error. >
What -ERRNO is more appropriate here ? -ENOSPC ?
> > Do you mind fixing that we well? Then you should be able to avoid > testing pages in a loop.
Ok, let me try to fix it. > > > -boris >
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