On 3/27/26 08:16, Sayali Patil wrote:
> Previously, register_region_with_uffd() created a new anonymous
> mapping and overwrote the address supplied by the caller before
> registering the range with userfaultfd.
>
> As a result, userfaultfd was applied to an unrelated anonymous mapping
> instead of the hugetlb region used by the test.
>
> Remove the extra mmap() and register the caller-provided address range
> directly using UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MISSING, so that faults are
> generated for the hugetlb mapping used by the test.
>
> This ensures userfaultfd operates on the actual hugetlb test region and
> validates the expected fault handling.
>
> Before patch:
> running ./hugepage-mremap
> -------------------------
> TAP version 13
> 1..1
> Map haddr: Returned address is 0x7eaa40000000
> Map daddr: Returned address is 0x7daa40000000
> Map vaddr: Returned address is 0x7faa40000000
> Address returned by mmap() = 0x7fff9d000000
> Mremap: Returned address is 0x7faa40000000
> First hex is 0
> First hex is 3020100
> ok 1 Read same data
> Totals: pass:1 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
> [PASS]
> ok 1 hugepage-mremap
>
> After patch:
> running ./hugepage-mremap
> -------------------------
> TAP version 13
> 1..1
> Map haddr: Returned address is 0x7eaa40000000
> Map daddr: Returned address is 0x7daa40000000
> Map vaddr: Returned address is 0x7faa40000000
> Registered memory at address 0x7eaa40000000 with userfaultfd
> Mremap: Returned address is 0x7faa40000000
> First hex is 0
> First hex is 3020100
> ok 1 Read same data
> Totals: pass:1 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
> [PASS]
> ok 1 hugepage-mremap
Okay, so we tested mremap() of something that is not even hugetlb.
>
> Fixes: 12b613206474 ("mm, hugepages: add hugetlb vma mremap() test")
> Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sayali Patil <sayalip@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage-mremap.c | 21 +++++---------------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage-mremap.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage-mremap.c
> index b8f7d92e5a35..e611249080d6 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage-mremap.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage-mremap.c
> @@ -85,25 +85,14 @@ static void register_region_with_uffd(char *addr, size_t len)
> if (ioctl(uffd, UFFDIO_API, &uffdio_api) == -1)
> ksft_exit_fail_msg("ioctl-UFFDIO_API: %s\n", strerror(errno));
>
> - /* Create a private anonymous mapping. The memory will be
> - * demand-zero paged--that is, not yet allocated. When we
> - * actually touch the memory, it will be allocated via
> - * the userfaultfd.
> - */
> -
> - addr = mmap(NULL, len, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
> - MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
> - if (addr == MAP_FAILED)
> - ksft_exit_fail_msg("mmap: %s\n", strerror(errno));
> -
> - ksft_print_msg("Address returned by mmap() = %p\n", addr);
> -
> - /* Register the memory range of the mapping we just created for
> - * handling by the userfaultfd object. In mode, we request to track
> - * missing pages (i.e., pages that have not yet been faulted in).
> + /* Register the passed memory range for handling by the userfaultfd object.
/*
* ...
While at it.
> + * In mode, we request to track missing pages
> + * (i.e., pages that have not yet been faulted in).
> */
> if (uffd_register(uffd, addr, len, true, false, false))
> ksft_exit_fail_msg("ioctl-UFFDIO_REGISTER: %s\n", strerror(errno));
> +
> + ksft_print_msg("Registered memory at address %p with userfaultfd\n", addr);
> }
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
Yes, that code is extremely weird. I wonder if this was some
copy-and-paste from other uffd test code.
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
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Cheers,
David