From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,hengyul@cs.unc.edu,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [to-be-updated] fs-proc-task_mmu-return-enotty-for-unknown-pagemap-ioctls.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 20:04:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261028030421.CD6811F01828@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
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The quilt patch titled
Subject: fs/proc/task_mmu: return -ENOTTY for unknown pagemap ioctls
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
fs-proc-task_mmu-return-enotty-for-unknown-pagemap-ioctls.patch
This patch was dropped because an updated version will be issued
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From: Hengyu Liang <hengyul@cs.unc.edu>
Subject: fs/proc/task_mmu: return -ENOTTY for unknown pagemap ioctls
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:13:00 -0400
Commit 52526ca7fdb9 ("fs/proc/task_mmu: implement IOCTL to get and
optionally clear info about PTEs") made do_pagemap_cmd() the ioctl
handler of /proc/<pid>/pagemap.
However, do_pagemap_cmd() returns -EINVAL for every command other than
PAGEMAP_SCAN. Before that commit, pagemap had no ioctl handler, and
the VFS returned -ENOTTY for these commands. As of now, they fail with
EINVAL, so tcgetattr() and isatty() on pagemap report EINVAL instead
of ENOTTY.
The issue can be reproduced with a simple C program:
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <termios.h>
int main(void)
{
struct termios t;
int fd = open("/proc/self/pagemap", O_RDONLY);
if (tcgetattr(fd, &t) < 0)
perror("tcgetattr");
return 0;
}
Before that commit, the result is:
tcgetattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device
After that commit, the result is:
tcgetattr: Invalid argument
This patch will return -ENOIOCTLCMD for unknown commands, as
procfs_procmap_ioctl() in the same file does, so that the VFS turns it
into -ENOTTY.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20261023181300.3366487-1-hengyul@cs.unc.edu
Fixes: 52526ca7fdb9 ("fs/proc/task_mmu: implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info about PTEs")
Signed-off-by: Hengyu Liang <hengyul@cs.unc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Cc: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
---
fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c~fs-proc-task_mmu-return-enotty-for-unknown-pagemap-ioctls
+++ a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -3201,7 +3201,7 @@ static long do_pagemap_cmd(struct file *
return do_pagemap_scan(mm, arg);
default:
- return -EINVAL;
+ return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
}
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hengyul@cs.unc.edu are
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