From: Avi Weiss <thnkslprpt@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>,
Arjun Roy <arjunroy@google.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Avi Weiss <thnkslprpt@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: return -ENOMEM for page-table allocation failure in insert_pages()
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:13:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260730071323.964321-1-thnkslprpt@gmail.com> (raw)
walk_to_pmd() returns NULL only when p4d_alloc(), pud_alloc(), or
pmd_alloc() fails. These are page-table allocation failures, but
insert_pages() currently reports them as -EFAULT.
Return -ENOMEM instead, consistent with the subsequent pte_alloc()
failure and with the single-page insert_page() path, which reports
failure of the same page-table allocation chain as -ENOMEM.
Address and range validation failures in vm_insert_pages() continue to
return -EFAULT. Keep the later -EFAULT return for
pte_offset_map_lock(), which is not an allocation failure.
Fixes: 8cd3984d81d5 ("mm/memory.c: add vm_insert_pages()")
Signed-off-by: Avi Weiss <thnkslprpt@gmail.com>
---
mm/memory.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index ff338c2abe92..d8eddca8e251 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2436,7 +2436,7 @@ static int insert_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
unsigned long pages_to_write_in_pmd;
int ret;
more:
- ret = -EFAULT;
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
pmd = walk_to_pmd(mm, addr);
if (!pmd)
goto out;
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-07-30 7:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-30 7:13 Avi Weiss [this message]
2026-07-30 7:42 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-07-30 7:43 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-07-30 8:27 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-30 8:36 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-07-30 16:15 ` Andrew Morton
2026-07-30 16:27 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
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