On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 07:02:23AM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2019/03/15 5:42, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> >     PTR_ERR((void *)map_addr) == -EEXIST
> > 
> > is a very complicated way of doing the obvious.
> 
> Michal suggested me to explicitly use PTR_ERR()

without any explanation why...

I wonder what documentation does this line need?

        map_addr == -EEXIST


> for documentation purpose in
> a reply mail to 
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] .
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > 
> >  fs/binfmt_elf.c |    3 +--
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
> > +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
> > @@ -375,8 +375,7 @@ static unsigned long elf_map(struct file *filep, 
> > unsigned long addr,
> >     } else
> >             map_addr = vm_mmap(filep, addr, size, prot, type, off);
> >  
> > -   if ((type & MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE) &&
> > -       PTR_ERR((void *)map_addr) == -EEXIST)
> > +   if ((type & MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE) && map_addr == -EEXIST)
> >             pr_info("%d (%s): Uhuuh, elf segment at %px requested but the 
> > memory is mapped already\n",
> >                     task_pid_nr(current), current->comm, (void *)addr);
> >  
> > 
> 

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