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David Hildenbrand 7cad96ae59 mm/gup: fix handling of errors from arch_make_folio_accessible() in follow_page_pte()
In case we call arch_make_folio_accessible() and it fails, we would
incorrectly return a value that is "!= 0" to the caller, indicating that
we pinned all requested pages and that the caller can keep going.

follow_page_pte() is not supposed to return error values, but instead "0"
on failure and "1" on success -- we'll clean that up separately.

In case we return "!= 0", the caller will just keep going pinning more
pages.  If we happen to pin a page afterwards, we're in trouble, because
we essentially skipped some pages in the requested range.

Staring at the arch_make_folio_accessible() implementation on s390x, I
assume it should actually never really fail unless something unexpected
happens (BUG?).  So let's not CC stable and just fix common code to do the
right thing.

Clean up the code a bit now that there is no reason to store the return
value of arch_make_folio_accessible().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250908094517.303409-1-david@redhat.com
Fixes: f28d43636d ("mm/gup/writeback: add callbacks for inaccessible pages")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Documentation docs/mm: add document for swap table 2025-09-21 14:22:22 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
arch ptdesc: remove ptdesc_to_virt() 2025-09-21 14:22:27 -07:00
block block: use largest_zero_folio in __blkdev_issue_zero_pages() 2025-09-13 16:54:54 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: remove nth_page() usage within SG entry 2025-09-21 14:22:09 -07:00
drivers virtio_balloon: stop calling page_address() in free_pages() 2025-09-21 14:22:18 -07:00
fs mm/hwpoison: decouple hwpoison_filter from mm/memory-failure.c 2025-09-21 14:22:21 -07:00
include mm: re-enable kswapd when memory pressure subsides or demotion is toggled 2025-09-21 14:22:29 -07:00
init init/main.c: fix boot time tracing crash 2025-09-03 17:10:36 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/zcrx: remove nth_page() usage within folio 2025-09-21 14:22:05 -07:00
ipc vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare 2025-07-28 13:43:25 -07:00
kernel dma-remap: drop nth_page() in dma_common_contiguous_remap() 2025-09-21 14:22:06 -07:00
lib kasan: introduce ARCH_DEFER_KASAN and unify static key across modes 2025-09-21 14:21:58 -07:00
mm mm/gup: fix handling of errors from arch_make_folio_accessible() in follow_page_pte() 2025-09-21 14:22:29 -07:00
net net: ipv4: fix regression in local-broadcast routes 2025-08-28 10:52:30 +02:00
rust rust: maple_tree: add MapleTreeAlloc 2025-09-21 14:22:19 -07:00
samples samples/cgroup: rm unused MEMCG_EVENTS macro 2025-09-21 14:22:26 -07:00
scripts scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: code: preserve alignment 2025-09-21 14:22:28 -07:00
security + Features 2025-08-04 08:17:28 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda/hdmi: Add pin fix for another HP EliteDesk 800 G4 model 2025-09-01 13:51:57 +02:00
tools selftests/mm: fix va_high_addr_switch.sh failure on x86_64 2025-09-21 14:22:29 -07:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt Merge tag 'kvm-x86-no_assignment-6.17' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD 2025-07-29 08:36:42 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about `clippy::disallowed_macros` configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
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Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS mm, swap: use the swap table for the swap cache and switch API 2025-09-21 14:22:24 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.17-rc4 2025-08-31 15:33:07 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.