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From:   Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Date:   Thu, 31 Mar 2022 20:09:05 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kcov: don't generate a warning on vm_insert_page()'s failure
To:     Aleksandr Nogikh <nogikh@google.com>
Cc:     kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        akpm@linux-foundation.org, dvyukov@google.com,
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On Thu, 31 Mar 2022 at 20:05, Aleksandr Nogikh <nogikh@google.com> wrote:
>
> vm_insert_page()'s failure is not an unexpected condition, so don't do
> WARN_ONCE() in such a case.
>
> Instead, print a kernel message and just return an error code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Nogikh <nogikh@google.com>
> ---
>  kernel/kcov.c | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/kcov.c b/kernel/kcov.c
> index 475524bd900a..961536a03127 100644
> --- a/kernel/kcov.c
> +++ b/kernel/kcov.c
> @@ -475,8 +475,11 @@ static int kcov_mmap(struct file *filep, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>         vma->vm_flags |= VM_DONTEXPAND;
>         for (off = 0; off < size; off += PAGE_SIZE) {
>                 page = vmalloc_to_page(kcov->area + off);
> -               if (vm_insert_page(vma, vma->vm_start + off, page))
> -                       WARN_ONCE(1, "vm_insert_page() failed");
> +               res = vm_insert_page(vma, vma->vm_start + off, page);
> +               if (res) {
> +                       pr_warn_once("kcov: vm_insert_page() failed");

pr_*() should be terminated by "\n" -- sorry, I missed this.

> +                       return res;
> +               }
>         }
>         return 0;
>  exit:
> --
> 2.35.1.1094.g7c7d902a7c-goog
>