The patch titled Subject: mm/mremap: use helper mlock_future_check() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-mremap-use-helper-mlock_future_check.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-mremap-use-helper-mlock_future_check.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-mremap-use-helper-mlock_future_check.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/mremap: use helper mlock_future_check() Use helper mlock_future_check() to check whether it's safe to resize the locked_vm to simplify the code. Minor readability improvement. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220322112004.27380-1-linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mremap.c | 10 ++-------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/mm/mremap.c~mm-mremap-use-helper-mlock_future_check +++ a/mm/mremap.c @@ -763,14 +763,8 @@ static struct vm_area_struct *vma_to_res if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_PFNMAP)) return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT); - if (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) { - unsigned long locked, lock_limit; - locked = mm->locked_vm << PAGE_SHIFT; - lock_limit = rlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK); - locked += new_len - old_len; - if (locked > lock_limit && !capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK)) - return ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN); - } + if (mlock_future_check(mm, vma->vm_flags, new_len - old_len)) + return ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN); if (!may_expand_vm(mm, vma->vm_flags, (new_len - old_len) >> PAGE_SHIFT)) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-mremap-use-helper-mlock_future_check.patch