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Date:   Mon, 2 Oct 2023 11:16:48 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To:     Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
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        Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm/gup: adapt get_user_page_vma_remote() to never
 return NULL
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On Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 05:00:05PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> get_user_pages_remote() will never return 0 except in the case of
> FOLL_NOWAIT being specified, which we explicitly disallow.
> 
> This simplifies error handling for the caller and avoids the awkwardness of
> dealing with both errors and failing to pin. Failing to pin here is an
> error.
> 
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c |  4 ++--

For arm64:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>