From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:27:58 +0000 (+0200) Subject: futex: request only one page from get_user_pages() X-Git-Tag: accepted/tizen/common/20141203.182822~15417^2 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=aa715284b4d28cabde6c25c568d769a6be712bc8;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-arm64.git futex: request only one page from get_user_pages() Yanmin noticed that fault_in_user_writeable() requests 4 pages instead of one. That's the result of blindly trusting Linus' proposal :) I even looked up the prototype to verify the correctness: the argument in question is confusingly enough named "len" while in reality it means number of pages. Pointed-out-by: Yanmin Zhang Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c index 1c33711..794c862 100644 --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ void put_futex_key(int fshared, union futex_key *key) static int fault_in_user_writeable(u32 __user *uaddr) { int ret = get_user_pages(current, current->mm, (unsigned long)uaddr, - sizeof(*uaddr), 1, 0, NULL, NULL); + 1, 1, 0, NULL, NULL); return ret < 0 ? ret : 0; }