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Commit 6581ccf0 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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mm: fix __access_remote_vm() GUP failure case



Commit ca5e8632 ("mm/gup: remove vmas parameter from
get_user_pages_remote()") removed the vma argument from GUP handling,
and instead added a helper function (get_user_page_vma_remote()) that
looks it up separately using 'vma_lookup()'.  And then converted
existing users that needed a vma to use the helper instead.

However, the helper function intentionally acts exactly like the old
get_user_pages_remote() did, and only fills in 'vma' on successful page
lookup.  Fine so far.

However, __access_remote_vm() wants the vma even for the unsuccessful
case, and used to do a

	vma = vma_lookup(mm, addr);

explicitly to look it up when the get_user_page() failed.

However, that conversion commit incorrectly removed that vma lookup,
thinking that get_user_page_vma_remote() would have done it.  Not so.

So add the vma_lookup() back in.

Fixes: ca5e8632 ("mm/gup: remove vmas parameter from get_user_pages_remote()")
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 77b1a7f7
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