With a large mmap map size, we can overlap with the text area and using MAP_FIXED results in unmapping that area. Switch to MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE and handle the EEXIST error. Reviewed-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/vm/mremap_test.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/mremap_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/mremap_test.c index c9a5461eb786..0624d1bd71b5 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/mremap_test.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/mremap_test.c @@ -75,9 +75,10 @@ static void *get_source_mapping(struct config c) retry: addr += c.src_alignment; src_addr = mmap((void *) addr, c.region_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, - MAP_FIXED | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_SHARED, -1, 0); + MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_SHARED, + -1, 0); if (src_addr == MAP_FAILED) { - if (errno == EPERM) + if (errno == EPERM || errno == EEXIST) goto retry; goto error; } -- 2.31.1