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Subject[PATCH] mm: fix ENOSPC returned by handle_mm_fault()
Al Viro observes that in the hugetlb case, handle_mm_fault() may return
a value of the kind ENOSPC when its caller is expecting a value of the
kind VM_FAULT_SIGBUS: fix alloc_huge_page()'s failure returns.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
---

mm/hugetlb.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- 3.0-rc1/mm/hugetlb.c 2011-05-29 18:42:37.425882575 -0700
+++ linux/mm/hugetlb.c 2011-06-05 13:33:22.795341004 -0700
@@ -1033,10 +1033,10 @@ static struct page *alloc_huge_page(stru
*/
chg = vma_needs_reservation(h, vma, addr);
if (chg < 0)
- return ERR_PTR(chg);
+ return ERR_PTR(-VM_FAULT_OOM);
if (chg)
if (hugetlb_get_quota(inode->i_mapping, chg))
- return ERR_PTR(-ENOSPC);
+ return ERR_PTR(-VM_FAULT_SIGBUS);

spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
page = dequeue_huge_page_vma(h, vma, addr, avoid_reserve);

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