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authorPeter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>2023-01-04 17:52:06 -0500
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-01-18 17:12:53 -0800
commita79390f5d6a78647fd70856bd42b22d994de0ba2 (patch)
tree4b6528a12bf5bcab1ca80b47029b286f80268f0d /include/linux/mm.h
parent6b7cea90c82e104c1151fec1f3ee216997fda652 (diff)
mm/mprotect: use long for page accountings and retval
Switch to use type "long" for page accountings and retval across the whole procedure of change_protection(). The change should have shrinked the possible maximum page number to be half comparing to previous (ULONG_MAX / 2), but it shouldn't overflow on any system either because the maximum possible pages touched by change protection should be ULONG_MAX / PAGE_SIZE. Two reasons to switch from "unsigned long" to "long": 1. It suites better on count_vm_numa_events(), whose 2nd parameter takes a long type. 2. It paves way for returning negative (error) values in the future. Currently the only caller that consumes this retval is change_prot_numa(), where the unsigned long was converted to an int. Since at it, touching up the numa code to also take a long, so it'll avoid any possible overflow too during the int-size convertion. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230104225207.1066932-3-peterx@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Acked-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm.h')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 329ed67edd76..4ac5ea4b584c 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2132,7 +2132,7 @@ static inline bool vma_wants_manual_pte_write_upgrade(struct vm_area_struct *vma
}
bool can_change_pte_writable(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
pte_t pte);
-extern unsigned long change_protection(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
+extern long change_protection(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
unsigned long end, unsigned long cp_flags);
extern int mprotect_fixup(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,