4.16-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>

commit 09e35a4a1ca8b9988ca9b8557d17948cd6c0808b upstream.

Patch series "mm/get_user_pages_fast fixes, cleanups", v2.

Turns out get_user_pages_fast and __get_user_pages_fast return different
values on error when given a single page: __get_user_pages_fast returns
0.  get_user_pages_fast returns either 0 or an error.

Callers of get_user_pages_fast expect an error so fix it up to return an
error consistently.

Stress the difference between get_user_pages_fast and
__get_user_pages_fast to make sure callers aren't confused.

This patch (of 3):

__gup_benchmark_ioctl does not handle the case where get_user_pages_fast
fails:

 - a negative return code will cause a buffer overrun

 - returning with partial success will cause use of uninitialized
   memory.

[a...@linux-foundation.org: simplification]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522962072-182137-3-git-send-email-...@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.hu...@intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <cor...@lwn.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressi...@leemhuis.info>
Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/gup_benchmark.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/gup_benchmark.c
+++ b/mm/gup_benchmark.c
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ static int __gup_benchmark_ioctl(unsigne
        struct page **pages;
 
        nr_pages = gup->size / PAGE_SIZE;
-       pages = kvmalloc(sizeof(void *) * nr_pages, GFP_KERNEL);
+       pages = kvzalloc(sizeof(void *) * nr_pages, GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!pages)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ static int __gup_benchmark_ioctl(unsigne
                }
 
                nr = get_user_pages_fast(addr, nr, gup->flags & 1, pages + i);
+               if (nr <= 0)
+                       break;
                i += nr;
        }
        end_time = ktime_get();


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