Re: [PATCH v4 06/10] mm/mremap: check remap conditions earlier

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On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 11:29:14AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 12:04:42 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > It turns out there's some undocumented, unusual behaviour in mremap()
> > around shrinking of a range which was previously missed, but an LTP test
> > flagged up (seemingly by accident).
> >
> > Basically, if you specify an input range that spans multiple VMAs, this is
> > in nearly all cases rejected (this is the point of this series, after all,
> > for VMA moves).
> >
> > However, it turns out if you a. shrink a range and b. the new size spans
> > only a single VMA in the original range - then this requirement is entirely
> > dropped.
> >
> > So I need to slightly adjust the logic to account for this. I will also be
> > documenting this in the man page as it appears the man page contradicts
> > this or is at least very unclear.
> >
> > I attach a fix-patch, however there's some very trivial conflicts caused
> > due to code being moved around.
> >
>
> OK, I applied this as a -fix.
>
> Moved the two new hunks into check_prep_vma().
>
> Made sure the "We are expanding and the VMA .." hunk landed properly in
> check_prep_vma().
>
> I've pushed out the result, please check current mm-unstable.

Thanks, all looks good to me!




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