The patch titled Subject: mm/mremap: correctly account old mapping after MREMAP_DONTUNMAP remap has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-mremap-correctly-account-old-mapping-after-mremap_dontunmap-remap.patch
This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches...
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------------------------------------------------------ From: Lorenzo Stoakes lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Subject: mm/mremap: correctly account old mapping after MREMAP_DONTUNMAP remap Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:58:36 +0100
Commit b714ccb02a76 ("mm/mremap: complete refactor of move_vma()") mistakenly introduced a new behaviour - clearing the VM_ACCOUNT flag of the old mapping when a mapping is mremap()'d with the MREMAP_DONTUNMAP flag set.
While we always clear the VM_LOCKED and VM_LOCKONFAULT flags for the old mapping (the page tables have been moved, so there is no data that could possibly be locked in memory), there is no reason to touch any other VMA flags.
This is because after the move the old mapping is in a state as if it were freshly mapped. This implies that the attributes of the mapping ought to remain the same, including whether or not the mapping is accounted.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251013165836.273113-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Fixes: b714ccb02a76 ("mm/mremap: complete refactor of move_vma()") Cc: Jann Horn jannh@google.com Cc: Liam Howlett liam.howlett@oracle.com Cc: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
mm/mremap.c | 15 ++++++--------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/mremap.c~mm-mremap-correctly-account-old-mapping-after-mremap_dontunmap-remap +++ a/mm/mremap.c @@ -1237,10 +1237,10 @@ static int copy_vma_and_data(struct vma_ }
/* - * Perform final tasks for MADV_DONTUNMAP operation, clearing mlock() and - * account flags on remaining VMA by convention (it cannot be mlock()'d any - * longer, as pages in range are no longer mapped), and removing anon_vma_chain - * links from it (if the entire VMA was copied over). + * Perform final tasks for MADV_DONTUNMAP operation, clearing mlock() flag on + * remaining VMA by convention (it cannot be mlock()'d any longer, as pages in + * range are no longer mapped), and removing anon_vma_chain links from it if the + * entire VMA was copied over. */ static void dontunmap_complete(struct vma_remap_struct *vrm, struct vm_area_struct *new_vma) @@ -1250,11 +1250,8 @@ static void dontunmap_complete(struct vm unsigned long old_start = vrm->vma->vm_start; unsigned long old_end = vrm->vma->vm_end;
- /* - * We always clear VM_LOCKED[ONFAULT] | VM_ACCOUNT on the old - * vma. - */ - vm_flags_clear(vrm->vma, VM_LOCKED_MASK | VM_ACCOUNT); + /* We always clear VM_LOCKED[ONFAULT] on the old VMA. */ + vm_flags_clear(vrm->vma, VM_LOCKED_MASK);
/* * anon_vma links of the old vma is no longer needed after its page _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com are
mm-mremap-correctly-account-old-mapping-after-mremap_dontunmap-remap.patch mm-shmem-update-shmem-to-use-mmap_prepare.patch device-dax-update-devdax-to-use-mmap_prepare.patch mm-add-vma_desc_size-vma_desc_pages-helpers.patch relay-update-relay-to-use-mmap_prepare.patch mm-vma-rename-__mmap_prepare-function-to-avoid-confusion.patch mm-add-remap_pfn_range_prepare-remap_pfn_range_complete.patch mm-abstract-io_remap_pfn_range-based-on-pfn.patch mm-introduce-io_remap_pfn_range_.patch mm-introduce-io_remap_pfn_range_-fix.patch mm-add-ability-to-take-further-action-in-vm_area_desc.patch doc-update-porting-vfs-documentation-for-mmap_prepare-actions.patch mm-hugetlbfs-update-hugetlbfs-to-use-mmap_prepare.patch mm-add-shmem_zero_setup_desc.patch mm-update-mem-char-driver-to-use-mmap_prepare.patch mm-update-resctl-to-use-mmap_prepare.patch