From: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Liam.Howlett@oracle.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
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Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
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Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>,
Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH V1 5.15.y 1/2] mm/mprotect: use long for page accountings and retval
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:46:45 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251125044646.1074524-2-harry.yoo@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251125044646.1074524-1-harry.yoo@oracle.com>
From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
commit a79390f5d6a78647fd70856bd42b22d994de0ba2 upstream.
Switch to use type "long" for page accountings and retval across the whole
procedure of change_protection().
The change should have shrinked the possible maximum page number to be
half comparing to previous (ULONG_MAX / 2), but it shouldn't overflow on
any system either because the maximum possible pages touched by change
protection should be ULONG_MAX / PAGE_SIZE.
Two reasons to switch from "unsigned long" to "long":
1. It suites better on count_vm_numa_events(), whose 2nd parameter takes
a long type.
2. It paves way for returning negative (error) values in the future.
Currently the only caller that consumes this retval is change_prot_numa(),
where the unsigned long was converted to an int. Since at it, touching up
the numa code to also take a long, so it'll avoid any possible overflow
too during the int-size convertion.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230104225207.1066932-3-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Acked-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Adjust context ]
Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
---
include/linux/hugetlb.h | 4 ++--
include/linux/mm.h | 2 +-
mm/hugetlb.c | 4 ++--
mm/mempolicy.c | 2 +-
mm/mprotect.c | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 60572d423586e..ca26849a8e359 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ struct page *follow_huge_pgd(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
int pmd_huge(pmd_t pmd);
int pud_huge(pud_t pud);
-unsigned long hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+long hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long address, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot);
bool is_hugetlb_entry_migration(pte_t pte);
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ static inline void move_hugetlb_state(struct page *oldpage,
{
}
-static inline unsigned long hugetlb_change_protection(
+static inline long hugetlb_change_protection(
struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot)
{
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 3598925561b13..8df1027982532 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1910,7 +1910,7 @@ extern unsigned long move_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
#define MM_CP_UFFD_WP_ALL (MM_CP_UFFD_WP | \
MM_CP_UFFD_WP_RESOLVE)
-extern unsigned long change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
+extern long change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot,
unsigned long cp_flags);
extern int mprotect_fixup(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 70ceac102a8db..d583f9394be5f 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -5644,7 +5644,7 @@ long follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return i ? i : err;
}
-unsigned long hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+long hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long address, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
@@ -5652,7 +5652,7 @@ unsigned long hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pte_t *ptep;
pte_t pte;
struct hstate *h = hstate_vma(vma);
- unsigned long pages = 0;
+ long pages = 0;
bool shared_pmd = false;
struct mmu_notifier_range range;
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index f089de8564cad..3d984d070e3fe 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ static int queue_pages_hugetlb(pte_t *pte, unsigned long hmask,
unsigned long change_prot_numa(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
{
- int nr_updated;
+ long nr_updated;
nr_updated = change_protection(vma, addr, end, PAGE_NONE, MM_CP_PROT_NUMA);
if (nr_updated)
diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index ed18dc49533f6..58822900c6d65 100644
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -35,13 +35,13 @@
#include "internal.h"
-static unsigned long change_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
+static long change_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot,
unsigned long cp_flags)
{
pte_t *pte, oldpte;
spinlock_t *ptl;
- unsigned long pages = 0;
+ long pages = 0;
int target_node = NUMA_NO_NODE;
bool dirty_accountable = cp_flags & MM_CP_DIRTY_ACCT;
bool prot_numa = cp_flags & MM_CP_PROT_NUMA;
@@ -219,13 +219,13 @@ static inline int pmd_none_or_clear_bad_unless_trans_huge(pmd_t *pmd)
return 0;
}
-static inline unsigned long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+static inline long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
pgprot_t newprot, unsigned long cp_flags)
{
pmd_t *pmd;
unsigned long next;
- unsigned long pages = 0;
+ long pages = 0;
unsigned long nr_huge_updates = 0;
struct mmu_notifier_range range;
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
do {
- unsigned long this_pages;
+ long this_pages;
next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
@@ -291,13 +291,13 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return pages;
}
-static inline unsigned long change_pud_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+static inline long change_pud_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
p4d_t *p4d, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
pgprot_t newprot, unsigned long cp_flags)
{
pud_t *pud;
unsigned long next;
- unsigned long pages = 0;
+ long pages = 0;
pud = pud_offset(p4d, addr);
do {
@@ -311,13 +311,13 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pud_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return pages;
}
-static inline unsigned long change_p4d_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+static inline long change_p4d_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
pgprot_t newprot, unsigned long cp_flags)
{
p4d_t *p4d;
unsigned long next;
- unsigned long pages = 0;
+ long pages = 0;
p4d = p4d_offset(pgd, addr);
do {
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ static inline unsigned long change_p4d_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return pages;
}
-static unsigned long change_protection_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+static long change_protection_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot,
unsigned long cp_flags)
{
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ static unsigned long change_protection_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pgd_t *pgd;
unsigned long next;
unsigned long start = addr;
- unsigned long pages = 0;
+ long pages = 0;
BUG_ON(addr >= end);
pgd = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
@@ -361,11 +361,11 @@ static unsigned long change_protection_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return pages;
}
-unsigned long change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
+long change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot,
unsigned long cp_flags)
{
- unsigned long pages;
+ long pages;
BUG_ON((cp_flags & MM_CP_UFFD_WP_ALL) == MM_CP_UFFD_WP_ALL);
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-25 4:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-25 4:46 [PATCH V1 5.15.y 0/2] Fix bad pmd due to race between change_prot_numa() and THP migration Harry Yoo
2025-11-25 4:46 ` Harry Yoo [this message]
2025-11-26 14:15 ` [PATCH V1 5.15.y 1/2] mm/mprotect: use long for page accountings and retval Sasha Levin
2025-11-25 4:46 ` [PATCH V1 5.15.y 2/2] mm/mprotect: delete pmd_none_or_clear_bad_unless_trans_huge() Harry Yoo
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