[PATCH V2 1/3] mm/hugetlb: fix mremap move length truncation

From: Li Zhe

Date: Mon Oct 19 2026 - 07:31:44 EST


move_hugetlb_page_tables() returns the number of bytes moved, but
its return type is int while the generic move_page_tables() path uses
unsigned long lengths.

A hugetlb mremap() move length above INT_MAX can therefore be
misreported to copy_vma_and_data(). The out-of-range conversion to int
is implementation-defined; on common 64-bit builds, for example, a
4 GiB move can be reported as zero, making the caller treat the move as
a failure and use the wrong length for rollback.

Return unsigned long from move_hugetlb_page_tables(), matching
move_page_tables() and preserving the full byte count.

Fixes: 550a7d60bd5e ("mm, hugepages: add mremap() support for hugepage backed vma")
Signed-off-by: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/hugetlb.h | 18 +++++++++---------
mm/hugetlb.c | 8 ++++----
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 16c4c4caa126..cc12040e4032 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -121,10 +121,10 @@ void hugepage_put_subpool(struct hugepage_subpool *spool);

void hugetlb_dup_vma_private(struct vm_area_struct *vma);
void clear_vma_resv_huge_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma);
-int move_hugetlb_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- struct vm_area_struct *new_vma,
- unsigned long old_addr, unsigned long new_addr,
- unsigned long len);
+unsigned long move_hugetlb_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ struct vm_area_struct *new_vma,
+ unsigned long old_addr, unsigned long new_addr,
+ unsigned long len);
int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *, struct mm_struct *,
struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *);
void unmap_hugepage_range(struct vm_area_struct *,
@@ -339,11 +339,11 @@ static inline int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst,
return 0;
}

-static inline int move_hugetlb_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- struct vm_area_struct *new_vma,
- unsigned long old_addr,
- unsigned long new_addr,
- unsigned long len)
+static inline unsigned long move_hugetlb_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ struct vm_area_struct *new_vma,
+ unsigned long old_addr,
+ unsigned long new_addr,
+ unsigned long len)
{
BUG();
return 0;
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index cea25773a6c9..2c64ca985dfa 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -5139,10 +5139,10 @@ static void move_huge_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long old_addr,
spin_unlock(dst_ptl);
}

-int move_hugetlb_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- struct vm_area_struct *new_vma,
- unsigned long old_addr, unsigned long new_addr,
- unsigned long len)
+unsigned long move_hugetlb_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ struct vm_area_struct *new_vma,
+ unsigned long old_addr, unsigned long new_addr,
+ unsigned long len)
{
struct hstate *h = hstate_vma(vma);
struct address_space *mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
--
2.20.1