From: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>

walk_system_ram_range() can return an error code either becuase *it*
failed, or because the 'func' that it calls returned an error.  The
memory hotplug does the following:

        ret = walk_system_ram_range(..., func);
        if (ret)
                return ret;

and 'ret' makes it out to userspace, eventually.  The problem is,
walk_system_ram_range() failues that result from *it* failing (as
opposed to 'func') return -1.  That leads to a very odd -EPERM (-1)
return code out to userspace.

Make walk_system_ram_range() return -EINVAL for internal failures to
keep userspace less confused.

This return code is compatible with all the callers that I audited.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Jiang <[email protected]>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <[email protected]>
Cc: Vishal Verma <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Huang Ying <[email protected]>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
Cc: Yaowei Bai <[email protected]>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <[email protected]>
---

 b/kernel/resource.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN kernel/resource.c~memory-hotplug-walk_system_ram_range-returns-neg-1 
kernel/resource.c
--- a/kernel/resource.c~memory-hotplug-walk_system_ram_range-returns-neg-1      
2019-01-24 15:13:13.950199540 -0800
+++ b/kernel/resource.c 2019-01-24 15:13:13.954199540 -0800
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ static int __walk_iomem_res_desc(resourc
                                 int (*func)(struct resource *, void *))
 {
        struct resource res;
-       int ret = -1;
+       int ret = -EINVAL;
 
        while (start < end &&
               !find_next_iomem_res(start, end, flags, desc, first_lvl, &res)) {
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ int walk_system_ram_range(unsigned long
        unsigned long flags;
        struct resource res;
        unsigned long pfn, end_pfn;
-       int ret = -1;
+       int ret = -EINVAL;
 
        start = (u64) start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
        end = ((u64)(start_pfn + nr_pages) << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1;
_

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