Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] Revert "mremap: don't allow MREMAP_DONTUNMAP on special_mappings and aio"

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On 3/23/21 6:25 PM, Brian Geffon wrote:
> This reverts commit cd544fd1dc9293c6702fab6effa63dac1cc67e99.
> 
> As discussed in [1] this commit was a no-op because the mapping type was
> checked in vma_to_resize before move_vma is ever called. This meant that
> vm_ops->mremap() would never be called on such mappings. Furthermore,
> we've since expanded support of MREMAP_DONTUNMAP to non-anonymous
> mappings, and these special mappings are still protected by the existing
> check of !VM_DONTEXPAND and !VM_PFNMAP which will result in a -EINVAL.
> 
> 1. https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/12/28/2340
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Dmitry




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