Re: [PATCH] mm/gup.c: Handling ERR within unpin_user_pages()

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 08:02:35PM +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> It is possible that a buggy caller of unpin_user_pages()
> (specially in error handling path) may end up calling it with
> npages < 0 which is unnecessary.
> @@ -328,6 +328,9 @@ void unpin_user_pages(struct page **pages, unsigned long 
> npages)
>  {
>       unsigned long index;
>  
> +     if (WARN_ON_ONCE(npages < 0))
> +             return;

But npages is unsigned long.  So it can't be less than zero.