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-rw-r--r--include/linux/pgtable.h9
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c2
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/pgtable.h b/include/linux/pgtable.h
index e2b705c14945..b50447ef1c92 100644
--- a/include/linux/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/pgtable.h
@@ -1511,8 +1511,9 @@ static inline void track_pfn_insert(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pgprot_t *prot,
/*
* track_pfn_copy is called when a VM_PFNMAP VMA is about to get the page
- * tables copied during copy_page_range(). On success, stores the pfn to be
- * passed to untrack_pfn_copy().
+ * tables copied during copy_page_range(). Will store the pfn to be
+ * passed to untrack_pfn_copy() only if there is something to be untracked.
+ * Callers should initialize the pfn to 0.
*/
static inline int track_pfn_copy(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma,
struct vm_area_struct *src_vma, unsigned long *pfn)
@@ -1522,7 +1523,9 @@ static inline int track_pfn_copy(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma,
/*
* untrack_pfn_copy is called when a VM_PFNMAP VMA failed to copy during
- * copy_page_range(), but after track_pfn_copy() was already called.
+ * copy_page_range(), but after track_pfn_copy() was already called. Can
+ * be called even if track_pfn_copy() did not actually track anything:
+ * handled internally.
*/
static inline void untrack_pfn_copy(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma,
unsigned long pfn)
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 2d8c265fc7d6..1a35165622e1 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1361,7 +1361,7 @@ copy_page_range(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, struct vm_area_struct *src_vma)
struct mm_struct *dst_mm = dst_vma->vm_mm;
struct mm_struct *src_mm = src_vma->vm_mm;
struct mmu_notifier_range range;
- unsigned long next, pfn;
+ unsigned long next, pfn = 0;
bool is_cow;
int ret;