Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Allow non-VM_DONTEXPAND and VM_PFNMAP mappings with MREMAP_DONTUNMAP

[Brian Geffon]

You're 100% correct, I'll mail a new patch in a few

Brian


On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 5:19 PM Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 04:44:25PM -0400, Brian Geffon wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
>
> Hi, Brian,
>
> > Thank you as always for taking a look. This change relies on the
> > existing check in vma_to_resize on line 686:
> > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.12-rc3/source/mm/mremap.c#L686
> > which returns -EFAULT when the vma is VM_DONTEXPAND or VM_PFNMAP.
>
> Do you mean line 676?
>
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.12-rc3/source/mm/mremap.c#L676
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> I'm not sure whether it'll work for MREMAP_DONTUNMAP, since IIUC
> MREMAP_DONTUNMAP only works for the remap case with no size change, however in
> that case in vma_to_resize() we'll bail out even earlier than line 676 when
> checking against the size:
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> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.12-rc3/source/mm/mremap.c#L667
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> So IIUC we'll still need the change as Hugh suggested previously.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Peter Xu
>