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Howlett" , Lorenzo Stoakes , Vlastimil Babka , linux-mm@kvack.org, Jakub Wilk Subject: [PATCH man v2] mmap.2: Document danger of mappings larger than PTRDIFF_MAX Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:43:59 +0200 Message-ID: <20250429164359.2699330-1-jannh@google.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.49.0.901.g37484f566f-goog Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: - C99 draft: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf section "6.5.6 Additive operators", paragraph 9 - object size restriction in GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2011-08/msg00221.html - glibc malloc restricts object size to <=PTRDIFF_MAX in checked_request2size() since glibc v2.30 (released in 2019, as pointed out by Jakub Wilk): https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=9bf8e29ca136094f --- man/man2/mmap.2 | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/man2/mmap.2 b/man/man2/mmap.2 index caf822103..4bb15699d 100644 --- a/man/man2/mmap.2 +++ b/man/man2/mmap.2 @@ -785,6 +785,25 @@ correspond to added or removed regions of the file is unspecified. An application can determine which pages of a mapping are currently resident in the buffer/page cache using .BR mincore (2). +.P +Unlike typical +.BR malloc (3) +implementations, +.BR mmap () +does not prevent creating objects larger than +.BR PTRDIFF_MAX . +Objects that are larger than +.B PTRDIFF_MAX +only work in limited ways in standard C +(in particular, pointer subtraction results in undefined behavior if the +result would be bigger than +.BR PTRDIFF_MAX ). +On top of that, GCC also assumes that no object is bigger than +.BR PTRDIFF_MAX . +.B PTRDIFF_MAX +is usually half of the address space size; +so for 32-bit processes, +it is usually 0x7fffffff (almost 2 GiB). .\" .SS Using MAP_FIXED safely The only safe use for base-commit: 4c4d9f0f5148caf1271394018d0f7381c1b8b400 -- 2.49.0.901.g37484f566f-goog