mm: add comment on swap_duplicate's error code

swap_duplicate()'s loop appears to miss out on returning the error code
from __swap_duplicate(), except when that's -ENOMEM.  In fact this is
intentional: prior to -ENOMEM for swap_count_continuation,
swap_duplicate() was void (and the case only occurs when copy_one_pte()
hits a corrupt pte).  But that's surprising behaviour, which certainly
deserves a comment.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 4a986127f15e85517522391828fb388af4490c2f..84374d8cf814db6e131be7c42fdbd7450b7282d5 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -2161,7 +2161,11 @@ void swap_shmem_alloc(swp_entry_t entry)
 }
 
 /*
- * increase reference count of swap entry by 1.
+ * Increase reference count of swap entry by 1.
+ * Returns 0 for success, or -ENOMEM if a swap_count_continuation is required
+ * but could not be atomically allocated.  Returns 0, just as if it succeeded,
+ * if __swap_duplicate() fails for another reason (-EINVAL or -ENOENT), which
+ * might occur if a page table entry has got corrupted.
  */
 int swap_duplicate(swp_entry_t entry)
 {