Hillf Danton wrote: >> On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 07:43:41 +0530 Souptick Joarder wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 9:45 AM Hillf Danton wrote: >> > Tue, 08 Sep 2020 17:19:17 -0700 >> > > syzbot found the following issue on: >> > > >> > > HEAD commit: 59126901 Merge tag 'perf-tools-fixes-for-v5.9-2020-09-03' .. >> > >> > Looks like d70cec898324 ("mm: mmap: merge vma after call_mmap() if >> > possible") added an extra fput. >> >> Can you please help me to understand how do you figure out this commit ? > >Feel free to correct Hillf if I missed any thing. >Failing to reproduce the gpf without the commit may tell us more about it than I could. >> > >> > --- a/mm/mmap.c >> > +++ b/mm/mmap.c >> > @@ -1781,7 +1781,6 @@ unsigned long mmap_region(struct file *f >> > merge = vma_merge(mm, prev, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end, vma->vm_flags, >> > NULL, vma->vm_file, vma->vm_pgoff, NULL, NULL_VM_UFFD_CTX); >> > if (merge) { >> > - fput(file); >> > vm_area_free(vma); >> > vma = merge; >> > /* Update vm_flags and possible addr >> > to pick up the change. We don't Yes, It seems vma_merge() could fput the vm_file via remove_next case in __vma_adjust(). So the fput vm_file here do the extra one. But we may not remove the fput here directly as vma_merge() do not always fput the vm_file. I'am not really familiar with the vma merge yet, but I would try my best to fix this as soon as possible. Many thanks for point this out. And sorry for my careless.