Re: [PATCH] mm/mmap: Don't unlock VMAs in remap_file_pages()

From: Liam R. Howlett
Date: Tue Dec 15 2020 - 10:42:48 EST


* Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [201215 09:50]:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 09:13:00AM -0500, Liam R. Howlett wrote:
> > @@ -3025,25 +3025,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(remap_file_pages, unsigned long, start, unsigned long, size,
> >
> > flags &= MAP_NONBLOCK;
> > flags |= MAP_SHARED | MAP_FIXED | MAP_POPULATE;
> > - if (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) {
> > - struct vm_area_struct *tmp;
> > - flags |= MAP_LOCKED;
>
> I think you need to keep ^^^ that line because the vma needs to stay
> mlocked.
>

Yes. I missed that this is transferred through by calc_vm_flag_bits()
in do_mmap(). I will revise the patch.

Thanks,
Liam