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 v2 3/3] mm: return -ENOMEM for page-table allocation failure in insert_pages()
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 17:42:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a486e90cca91f443552b70ab2a18510bcc5dd8b6.1785847364.git.thnkslprpt@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1785847364.git.thnkslprpt@gmail.com>
populate_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.
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 11bb4fb98761..16093479d341 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2438,7 +2438,7 @@ static int insert_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
more:
pmd = populate_to_pmd(mm, addr);
if (!pmd) {
- err = -EFAULT;
+ err = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-05 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-05 14:42 [PATCH v2 0/3] mm: improve insert_pages() error handling Avi Weiss
2026-08-05 14:42 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm/memory.c: rename walk_to_pmd() to populate_to_pmd() Avi Weiss
2026-08-25 10:39 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-05 14:42 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory.c: simplify error handling in insert_pages() Avi Weiss
2026-08-25 10:38 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-05 14:42 ` Avi Weiss [this message]
2026-08-25 10:40 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] mm: return -ENOMEM for page-table allocation failure " David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-25 12:52 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
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