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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] mm/hmm: hmm_range_fault() NULL pointer bug
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On 8/24/19 3:37 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 03:17:52PM -0700, Ralph Campbell wrote:
>> Although hmm_range_fault() calls find_vma() to make sure that a vma exists
>> before calling walk_page_range(), hmm_vma_walk_hole() can still be called
>> with walk->vma == NULL if the start and end address are not contained
>> within the vma range.
>
> Should we convert to walk_vma_range instead? Or keep walk_page_range
> but drop searching the vma ourselves?
>
> Except for that the patch looks good to me:
>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>

I think keeping the call to walk_page_range() makes sense.
Jason is hoping to be able to snapshot a range with & without vmas
and have the pfns[] filled with empty/valid entries as appropriate.

I plan to repost my patch changing hmm_range_fault() to use
walk.test_walk which will remove the call to find_vma().
Jason had some concerns about testing it so that's why I have
been working on some HMM self tests before resending it.

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