The patch titled Subject: fsnotify: pass correct offset to fsnotify_mmap_perm() has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is fsnotify-pass-correct-offset-to-fsnotify_mmap_perm.patch
This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches...
This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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------------------------------------------------------ From: Ryan Roberts ryan.roberts@arm.com Subject: fsnotify: pass correct offset to fsnotify_mmap_perm() Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2025 16:52:36 +0100
fsnotify_mmap_perm() requires a byte offset for the file about to be mmap'ed. But it is called from vm_mmap_pgoff(), which has a page offset. Previously the conversion was done incorrectly so let's fix it, being careful not to overflow on 32-bit platforms.
Discovered during code review.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251003155238.2147410-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com Fixes: 066e053fe208 ("fsnotify: add pre-content hooks on mmap()") Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts ryan.roberts@arm.com Reviewed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau kas@kernel.org Cc: Amir Goldstein amir73il@gmail.com Cc: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Cc: Liam Howlett liam.howlett@oracle.com Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Cc: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Cc: Mike Rapoport rppt@kernel.org Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan surenb@google.com Cc: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
mm/util.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/util.c~fsnotify-pass-correct-offset-to-fsnotify_mmap_perm +++ a/mm/util.c @@ -566,6 +566,7 @@ unsigned long vm_mmap_pgoff(struct file unsigned long len, unsigned long prot, unsigned long flag, unsigned long pgoff) { + loff_t off = (loff_t)pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT; unsigned long ret; struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm; unsigned long populate; @@ -573,7 +574,7 @@ unsigned long vm_mmap_pgoff(struct file
ret = security_mmap_file(file, prot, flag); if (!ret) - ret = fsnotify_mmap_perm(file, prot, pgoff >> PAGE_SHIFT, len); + ret = fsnotify_mmap_perm(file, prot, off, len); if (!ret) { if (mmap_write_lock_killable(mm)) return -EINTR; _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from ryan.roberts@arm.com are
fsnotify-pass-correct-offset-to-fsnotify_mmap_perm.patch