From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@bytedance.com>,
muchun.song@linux.dev, osalvador@suse.de,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, rppt@kernel.org, peterx@redhat.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/3] mm/hugetlb: fix mremap move length truncation
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:18:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6d4de88-cf2c-444d-8050-da2a9b22c7b9@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261019113034.97690-2-lizhe.67@bytedance.com>
On 10/19/26 13:30, Li Zhe wrote:
> move_hugetlb_page_tables() returns the number of bytes moved, but
> its return type is int while the generic move_page_tables() path uses
> unsigned long lengths.
>
> A hugetlb mremap() move length above INT_MAX can therefore be
> misreported to copy_vma_and_data(). The out-of-range conversion to int
> is implementation-defined; on common 64-bit builds, for example, a
> 4 GiB move can be reported as zero, making the caller treat the move as
> a failure and use the wrong length for rollback.
Sounds like we want to CC stable here, right?
>
> Return unsigned long from move_hugetlb_page_tables(), matching
> move_page_tables() and preserving the full byte count.
>
> Fixes: 550a7d60bd5e ("mm, hugepages: add mremap() support for hugepage backed vma")
> Signed-off-by: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@bytedance.com>
> ---
> include/linux/hugetlb.h | 18 +++++++++---------
> mm/hugetlb.c | 8 ++++----
> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> index 16c4c4caa126..cc12040e4032 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> @@ -121,10 +121,10 @@ void hugepage_put_subpool(struct hugepage_subpool *spool);
>
> void hugetlb_dup_vma_private(struct vm_area_struct *vma);
> void clear_vma_resv_huge_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma);
> -int move_hugetlb_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> - struct vm_area_struct *new_vma,
> - unsigned long old_addr, unsigned long new_addr,
> - unsigned long len);
> +unsigned long move_hugetlb_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> + struct vm_area_struct *new_vma,
> + unsigned long old_addr, unsigned long new_addr,
> + unsigned long len);
While at it, can you convert all these to use double tab indent instead?
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
--
Cheers,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-20 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-19 11:30 [PATCH V2 0/3] mm/hugetlb: fix mremap bugs Li Zhe
2026-10-19 11:30 ` [PATCH V2 1/3] mm/hugetlb: fix mremap move length truncation Li Zhe
2026-10-20 8:18 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-10-19 11:30 ` [PATCH V2 2/3] mm/hugetlb: disable PMD sharing for UFFD missing mode Li Zhe
2026-10-20 10:11 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-10-20 10:33 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-19 11:30 ` [PATCH V2 3/3] mm/hugetlb: fix mremap deadlock when PMD sharing is possible Li Zhe
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