The patch titled Subject: mmmremap.c: avoid pointless invalidate_range_start/end on mremap(old_size=0) has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-avoid-pointless-invalidate_range_start-end-on-mremapold_size=0.patch
This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-avoid-pointless-invalidate_rang... and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-avoid-pointless-invalidate_rang...
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------------------------------------------------------ From: Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com Subject: mmmremap.c: avoid pointless invalidate_range_start/end on mremap(old_size=0)
If an mremap() syscall with old_size=0 ends up in move_page_tables(), it will call invalidate_range_start()/invalidate_range_end() unnecessarily, i.e. with an empty range.
This causes a WARN in KVM's mmu_notifier. In the past, empty ranges have been diagnosed to be off-by-one bugs, hence the WARNing. Given the low (so far) number of unique reports, the benefits of detecting more buggy callers seem to outweigh the cost of having to fix cases such as this one, where userspace is doing something silly. In this particular case, an early return from move_page_tables() is enough to fix the issue.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220329173155.172439-1-pbonzini@redhat.com Reported-by: syzbot+6bde52d89cfdf9f61425@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com Cc: Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
mm/mremap.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/mm/mremap.c~mm-avoid-pointless-invalidate_range_start-end-on-mremapold_size=0 +++ a/mm/mremap.c @@ -486,6 +486,9 @@ unsigned long move_page_tables(struct vm pmd_t *old_pmd, *new_pmd; pud_t *old_pud, *new_pud;
+ if (!len) + return 0; + old_end = old_addr + len; flush_cache_range(vma, old_addr, old_end);
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from pbonzini@redhat.com are
mm-avoid-pointless-invalidate_range_start-end-on-mremapold_size=0.patch