From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: ljs@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, liam@infradead.org,
vbabka@kernel.org, jannh@google.com, pfalcato@suse.de,
bgeffon@google.com, 0x7f454c46@gmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/mremap: correctly uncharge accountable VMAs in error path" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2026 05:39:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261107053909-failed-6.6-65e722a74df9@kernel.org> (raw)
The patch below does not apply to the 6.6-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.6.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 65e722a74df992719676ead85a9e93fb2b5a0983
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '20261107053909-failed-6.6-65e722a74df9@kernel.org' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.6.y' 'HEAD^..'
Thanks,
Sasha
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 65e722a74df992719676ead85a9e93fb2b5a0983 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:57:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] mm/mremap: correctly uncharge accountable VMAs in error path
The mremap error path is a fragile and unwieldy beast - it reverses the
page table move then updates vma_remap_struct state to swap VMA, length and
address between old and new VMAs in copy_vma_and_data().
If the mremap() operation didn't specify MREMAP_DONTUNMAP then its caller,
move_vma(), invokes unmap_source_vma(), which unmaps the new VMA rather
than the old one.
For accountable VMAs when MREMAP_DONTUNMAP is not specified,
unmap_source_vma() unsets VMA_ACCOUNT_BIT during this unmap in order that
only the delta of a VMA expansion is charged (performed by
vrm_calc_charge() earlier).
Therefore nothing uncharges the expanded VMA size, and there is a permanent
leak in global Committed_AS.
Resolve the issue by uncharging when MREMAP_DONTUNMAP is not specified.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20261019-other-mremap-charge-leak-v1-1-d94477fe6545@kernel.org
Fixes: fdbef6149135 ("mm/mremap: don't account pages in vma_to_resize()")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
---
mm/mremap.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
index 24827e13e617f..0d06d7f37f19a 100644
--- a/mm/mremap.c
+++ b/mm/mremap.c
@@ -1339,6 +1339,20 @@ static int copy_vma_and_data(struct vma_remap_struct *vrm,
pmc_revert.need_rmap_locks = true;
move_page_tables(&pmc_revert);
+ /*
+ * When copy_vma_and_data() returns, the new VMA will be
+ * unmapped rather than the old one.
+ *
+ * When an accountable move is being performed, this unmapping
+ * will not uncharge any expansion, so do that now.
+ *
+ * A move is accountable if the VMA is accountable and
+ * MREMAP_DONTUNMAP is not specified, so only do so if the
+ * latter is true.
+ */
+ if (!(vrm->flags & MREMAP_DONTUNMAP))
+ vrm_uncharge(vrm);
+
vrm->vma = new_vma;
vrm->old_len = vrm->new_len;
vrm->addr = vrm->new_addr;
--
2.53.0
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