+ selftest-use-mmap-instead-of-posix_memalign-to-allocate-memory.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm@linux-foundation.org]

The patch titled
     Subject: selftest: use mmap instead of posix_memalign to allocate memory
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     selftest-use-mmap-instead-of-posix_memalign-to-allocate-memory.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/selftest-use-mmap-instead-of-posix_memalign-to-allocate-memory.patch
and later at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/selftest-use-mmap-instead-of-posix_memalign-to-allocate-memory.patch

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From: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Subject: selftest: use mmap instead of posix_memalign to allocate memory

This test passes pointers obtained from anon_allocate_area to the
userfaultfd and mremap APIs.  This causes a problem if the system
allocator returns tagged pointers because with the tagged address ABI the
kernel rejects tagged addresses passed to these APIs, which would end up
causing the test to fail.  To make this test compatible with such system
allocators, stop using the system allocator to allocate memory in
anon_allocate_area, and instead just use mmap.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210714195437.118982-3-pcc@google.com
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Icac91064fcd923f77a83e8e133f8631c5b8fc241
Fixes: c47174fc362a ("userfaultfd: selftest")
Co-developed-by: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Alistair Delva <adelva@google.com>
Cc: William McVicker <willmcvicker@google.com>
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com>
Cc: Mitch Phillips <mitchp@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[5.4]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c~selftest-use-mmap-instead-of-posix_memalign-to-allocate-memory
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -210,8 +210,10 @@ static void anon_release_pages(char *rel
 
 static void anon_allocate_area(void **alloc_area)
 {
-	if (posix_memalign(alloc_area, page_size, nr_pages * page_size))
-		err("posix_memalign() failed");
+	*alloc_area = mmap(NULL, nr_pages * page_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
+	if (*alloc_area == MAP_FAILED)
+		err("mmap of anonymous memory failed");
 }
 
 static void noop_alias_mapping(__u64 *start, size_t len, unsigned long offset)
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from pcc@google.com are

userfaultfd-do-not-untag-user-pointers.patch
selftest-use-mmap-instead-of-posix_memalign-to-allocate-memory.patch