From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,vbabka@kernel.org,pfalcato@suse.de,ljs@kernel.org,liam@infradead.org,jannh@google.com,thehajime@gmail.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-stable] mm-nommu-add-sysctl_max_map_count-check-for-do_mmap.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:43:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260731024357.800C71F000E9@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm: nommu: add sysctl_max_map_count() check for do_mmap()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-nommu-add-sysctl_max_map_count-check-for-do_mmap.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------
From: Hajime Tazaki <thehajime@gmail.com>
Subject: mm: nommu: add sysctl_max_map_count() check for do_mmap()
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 10:28:30 +0900
The sysctl variable vm.max_map_count (sysctl_max_map_count) is not exposed
under !MMU configurations, but its default value (DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT)
is still used as a allocation limit. Currently, this limit is enforced
when a VMA entry is split into two chunks (split_vma()), but it is not
checked during initial allocation (do_mmap()). As a result, if a user
requests a large number of memory allocations, the system will continue
allocating until it hits an Out-Of-Memory (OOM) condition.
This commit introduces a check at the beginning of do_mmap() in nommu.c to
prevent this situation.
This issue was detected using the Linux Test Project (LTP) test linked
below.
Link: https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/master/testcases/kernel/syscalls/munmap/munmap04.c
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260702012830.667205-1-thehajime@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Hajime Tazaki <thehajime@gmail.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/nommu.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/mm/nommu.c~mm-nommu-add-sysctl_max_map_count-check-for-do_mmap
+++ a/mm/nommu.c
@@ -1035,6 +1035,9 @@ unsigned long do_mmap(struct file *file,
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
+ if (current->mm->map_count >= get_sysctl_max_map_count())
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
/* we ignore the address hint */
addr = 0;
len = PAGE_ALIGN(len);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from thehajime@gmail.com are
mm-nommu-point-to-the-write-iterator-upon-split_vma.patch
mm-nommu-fix-the-error-path-when-vma_iter_prealloc-fails.patch
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