From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Zenghui Yu <zenghui.yu@linux.dev>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
ljs@kernel.org, liam@infradead.org, vbabka@kernel.org,
rppt@kernel.org, surenb@google.com, mhocko@suse.com,
shuah@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/mm: fix size truncation in pagemap_ioctl test
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 14:38:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0f15df3b-b4ac-41f5-9470-08bc69bbdebe@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df053a08-6c9a-4e56-9ba5-bdfbf930331b@linux.dev>
On 9/8/26 13:22, Zenghui Yu wrote:
> On 9/7/26 11:22 PM, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
>> On 9/7/26 15:56, Zenghui Yu wrote:
>>> From: "Zenghui Yu (Huawei)" <zenghui.yu@linux.dev>
>>>
>>> On arm64 with 64K base pages, the huge page size is 512 MiB, and
>>> hpage_unit_tests() builds a 5 GiB range (10 * 512 MiB) for its tests. This
>>> exceeds the range of the int size parameters of gethugepage(),
>>> wp_addr_range() and pagemap_ioctl(). The implicit truncation to 1 GiB
>>> makes gethugepage() allocate a too small buffer, while the callers keep
>>> operating on the original 5 GiB range, resulting in spurious failures or
>>> SIGSEGV.
>>>
>>> Change those size parameters to size_t.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 46fd75d4a3c9 ("selftests: mm: add pagemap ioctl tests")
>>> Assisted-by: GLM-5.3 OpenCode
>>> Signed-off-by: Zenghui Yu (Huawei) <zenghui.yu@linux.dev>
>>> ---
>>
>> Looking at pagemap_ioctl.c ... I think most functions should actually be "static".
>
> Yup.
>
>> Using size_t is ok. But then we should also change "unsigned long long mem_size"
>> to size_t, no?
>>
>> Also, in wp_free() we are suddenly using "long size". In pagemap_ioc() we're
>> also still using "int len".
>>
>> Can we consistently use one type please?
>
> Yes we can. This patch adopts a minimal fix for this specific issue.
Right, but for this selftest in particular we don't need a minimal fix. :)
--
Cheers,
David
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-08 12:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-07 13:56 [PATCH] selftests/mm: fix size truncation in pagemap_ioctl test Zenghui Yu
2026-09-07 14:57 ` Gregory Price
2026-09-07 15:22 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 11:22 ` Zenghui Yu
2026-09-08 12:38 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
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