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We used to not pass in the pgoff correctly when register/unregister uffd regions, it caused incorrect behavior on vma merging and can cause mergeable vmas being separate after ioctls return. For example, when we have: vma1(range 0-9, with uffd), vma2(range 10-19, no uffd) Then someone unregisters uffd on range (5-9), it should logically become: vma1(range 0-4, with uffd), vma2(range 5-19, no uffd) But with current code we'll have: vma1(range 0-4, with uffd), vma3(range 5-9, no uffd), vma2(range 10-19, no uffd) This patch allows such merge to happen correctly before ioctl returns. This behavior seems to have existed since the 1st day of uffd. Since pgoff for vma_merge() is only used to identify the possibility of vma merging, meanwhile here what we did was always passing in a pgoff smaller than what we should, so there should have no other side effect besides not merging it. Let's still tentatively copy stable for this, even though I don't see anything will go wrong besides vma being split (which is mostly not user visible). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230517190916.3429499-3-peterx@redhat.com Fixes: 86039bd3b4e6 ("userfaultfd: add new syscall to provide memory externalization") Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Reported-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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