+ fs-proc-task_mmu-return-enotty-for-unknown-pagemap-ioctls.patch added to mm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

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The patch titled
     Subject: fs/proc/task_mmu: return -ENOTTY for unknown pagemap ioctls
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     fs-proc-task_mmu-return-enotty-for-unknown-pagemap-ioctls.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/fs-proc-task_mmu-return-enotty-for-unknown-pagemap-ioctls.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Hengyu Liang <hengyul@cs.unc.edu>
Subject: fs/proc/task_mmu: return -ENOTTY for unknown pagemap ioctls
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:13:00 -0400

Commit 52526ca7fdb9 ("fs/proc/task_mmu: implement IOCTL to get and
optionally clear info about PTEs") made do_pagemap_cmd() the ioctl
handler of /proc/<pid>/pagemap.

However, do_pagemap_cmd() returns -EINVAL for every command other than
PAGEMAP_SCAN. Before that commit, pagemap had no ioctl handler, and
the VFS returned -ENOTTY for these commands. As of now, they fail with
EINVAL, so tcgetattr() and isatty() on pagemap report EINVAL instead
of ENOTTY.

The issue can be reproduced with a simple C program:

    #include <fcntl.h>
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <termios.h>

    int main(void)
    {
            struct termios t;
            int fd = open("/proc/self/pagemap", O_RDONLY);

            if (tcgetattr(fd, &t) < 0)
                    perror("tcgetattr");
            return 0;
    }

Before that commit, the result is:

    tcgetattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device

After that commit, the result is:

    tcgetattr: Invalid argument

This patch will return -ENOIOCTLCMD for unknown commands, as
procfs_procmap_ioctl() in the same file does, so that the VFS turns it
into -ENOTTY.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20261023181300.3366487-1-hengyul@cs.unc.edu
Fixes: 52526ca7fdb9 ("fs/proc/task_mmu: implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info about PTEs")
Signed-off-by: Hengyu Liang <hengyul@cs.unc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Cc: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
---

 fs/proc/task_mmu.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c~fs-proc-task_mmu-return-enotty-for-unknown-pagemap-ioctls
+++ a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -3201,7 +3201,7 @@ static long do_pagemap_cmd(struct file *
 		return do_pagemap_scan(mm, arg);
 
 	default:
-		return -EINVAL;
+		return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
 	}
 }
 
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from hengyul@cs.unc.edu are

fs-proc-task_mmu-return-enotty-for-unknown-pagemap-ioctls.patch