In current code, the vma related call of hugetlb mapping, except mmap, are all consider not correctly aligned length as invalid parameter, including mprotect,munmap, mlock, etc., by checking through hugetlb_vm_op_split. So, user will see failure, after successfully call mmap, although using same length parameter to other mapping syscall. It is desirable for all hugetlb mapping calls have consistent behavior, without mmap as exception(which round up length to align underlying hugepage size). In current Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst, the description is: " Syscalls that operate on memory backed by hugetlb pages only have their lengths aligned to the native page size of the processor; they will normally fail with errno set to EINVAL or exclude hugetlb pages that extend beyond the length if not hugepage aligned. For example, munmap(2) will fail if memory is backed by a hugetlb page and the length is smaller than the hugepage size. " which express the consistent behavior. Signed-off-by: Li Xinhai <lixinhai.lxh@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> --- changes: 0. patch which introduce new flag for mmap() The new flag should be avoided. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/1585313944-8627-1-git-send-email-lixinhai.lxh@xxxxxxxxx/ mm/mmap.c | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index d681a20..b2aa102 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -1560,20 +1560,12 @@ unsigned long ksys_mmap_pgoff(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len, file = fget(fd); if (!file) return -EBADF; - if (is_file_hugepages(file)) - len = ALIGN(len, huge_page_size(hstate_file(file))); retval = -EINVAL; if (unlikely(flags & MAP_HUGETLB && !is_file_hugepages(file))) goto out_fput; } else if (flags & MAP_HUGETLB) { struct user_struct *user = NULL; - struct hstate *hs; - hs = hstate_sizelog((flags >> MAP_HUGE_SHIFT) & MAP_HUGE_MASK); - if (!hs) - return -EINVAL; - - len = ALIGN(len, huge_page_size(hs)); /* * VM_NORESERVE is used because the reservations will be * taken when vm_ops->mmap() is called -- 1.8.3.1