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From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	"Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 00/10] mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:38:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1752232673.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> (raw)

Historically we've made it a uAPI requirement that mremap() may only
operate on a single VMA at a time.

For instances where VMAs need to be resized, this makes sense, as it
becomes very difficult to determine what a user actually wants should they
indicate a desire to expand or shrink the size of multiple VMAs (truncate?
Adjust sizes individually? Some other strategy?).

However, in instances where a user is moving VMAs, it is restrictive to
disallow this.

This is especially the case when anonymous mapping remap may or may not be
mergeable depending on whether VMAs have or have not been faulted due to
anon_vma assignment and folio index alignment with vma->vm_pgoff.

Often this can result in surprising impact where a moved region is faulted,
then moved back and a user fails to observe a merge from otherwise
compatible, adjacent VMAs.

This change allows such cases to work without the user having to be
cognizant of whether a prior mremap() move or other VMA operations has
resulted in VMA fragmentation.

In order to do this, this series performs a large amount of refactoring,
most pertinently - grouping sanity checks together, separately those that
check input parameters and those relating to VMAs.

we also simplify the post-mmap lock drop processing for uffd and mlock()'d
VMAs.

With this done, we can then fairly straightforwardly implement this
functionality.

This works exclusively for mremap() invocations which specify
MREMAP_FIXED. It is not compatible with VMAs which use userfaultfd, as the
notification of the userland fault handler would require us to drop the
mmap lock.

It is also not compatible with file-backed mappings with customised
get_unmapped_area() handlers as these may not honour MREMAP_FIXED.

The input and output addresses ranges must not overlap. We carefully
account for moves which would result in VMA iterator invalidation.

While there can be gaps between VMAs in the input range, there can be no
gap before the first VMA in the range.


v3:
* Disallowed move operation except for MREMAP_FIXED.
* Disallow gap at start of aggregate range to avoid confusion.
* Disallow any file-baked VMAs with custom get_unmapped_area.
* Renamed multi_vma to seen_vma to be clearer. Stop reusing new_addr, use
  separate target_addr var to track next target address.
* Check if first VMA fails multi VMA check, if so we'll allow one VMA but
  not multiple.
* Updated the commit message for patch 9 to be clearer about gap behaviour.
* Removed accidentally included debug goto statement in test (doh!). Test
  was and is passing regardless.
* Unmap target range in test, previously we ended up moving additional VMAs
  unintentionally. This still all passed :) but was not what was intended.
* Removed self-merge check - there is absolutely no way this can happen
  across multiple VMAs, as there is no means of moving VMAs such that a VMA
  merges with itself.

v2:
* Squashed uffd stub fix into series.
* Propagated tags, thanks!
* Fixed param naming in patch 4 as per Vlastimil.
* Renamed vma_reset to vmi_needs_reset + dropped reset on unmap as per
  Liam.
* Correctly return -EFAULT if no VMAs in input range.
* Account for get_unmapped_area() disregarding MAP_FIXED and returning an
  altered address.
* Added additional explanatatory comment to the remap_move() function.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1751865330.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com/

v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1751865330.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com/


Lorenzo Stoakes (10):
  mm/mremap: perform some simple cleanups
  mm/mremap: refactor initial parameter sanity checks
  mm/mremap: put VMA check and prep logic into helper function
  mm/mremap: cleanup post-processing stage of mremap
  mm/mremap: use an explicit uffd failure path for mremap
  mm/mremap: check remap conditions earlier
  mm/mremap: move remap_is_valid() into check_prep_vma()
  mm/mremap: clean up mlock populate behaviour
  mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs
  tools/testing/selftests: extend mremap_test to test multi-VMA mremap

 fs/userfaultfd.c                         |  15 +-
 include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h            |   5 +
 mm/mremap.c                              | 553 +++++++++++++++--------
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/mremap_test.c | 146 +++++-
 4 files changed, 518 insertions(+), 201 deletions(-)

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2.50.0

             reply	other threads:[~2025-07-11 11:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-07-11 11:38 Lorenzo Stoakes [this message]
2025-07-11 11:38 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] mm/mremap: perform some simple cleanups Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-11 11:38 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] mm/mremap: refactor initial parameter sanity checks Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-11 11:38 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] mm/mremap: put VMA check and prep logic into helper function Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-11 11:38 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] mm/mremap: cleanup post-processing stage of mremap Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-11 11:38 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] mm/mremap: use an explicit uffd failure path for mremap Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-11 11:38 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] mm/mremap: check remap conditions earlier Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-11 11:38 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] mm/mremap: move remap_is_valid() into check_prep_vma() Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-11 11:38 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] mm/mremap: clean up mlock populate behaviour Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-11 11:38 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-11 13:34   ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-07-11 13:49     ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-11 14:14   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-16 19:36   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-25 17:11   ` Jann Horn
2025-07-25 17:27     ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-25 19:10       ` Jann Horn
2025-07-25 19:59         ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-11 11:38 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] tools/testing/selftests: extend mremap_test to test multi-VMA mremap Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-11 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs Lorenzo Stoakes

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