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Commit 475f4dfc authored by Peter Xu's avatar Peter Xu Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/gup: fix fixup_user_fault() on multiple retries



This part was overlooked when reworking the gup code on multiple
retries.

When we get the 2nd+ retry, we'll be with TRIED flag set.  Current code
will bail out on the 2nd retry because the !TRIED check will fail so the
retry logic will be skipped.  What's worse is that, it will also return
zero which errornously hints the caller that the page is faulted in
while it's not.

The !TRIED flag check seems to not be needed even before the mutliple
retries change because if we get a VM_FAULT_RETRY, it must be the 1st
retry, and we should not have TRIED set for that.

Fix it by removing the !TRIED check, at the meantime check against fatal
signals properly before the page fault so we can still properly respond
to the user killing the process during retries.

Fixes: 4426e945 ("mm/gup: allow VM_FAULT_RETRY for multiple times")
Reported-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200502003523.8204-1-peterx@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 65759097
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