The patch titled Subject: mm: remove the vma check in migrate_vma_setup() has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-remove-the-vma-check-in-migrate_vma_setup.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-remove-the-vma-check-in-migrate_vma_setup.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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 via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Alistair Popple <apopple@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: remove the vma check in migrate_vma_setup() Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 22:54:17 -0500 migrate_vma_setup() checks that a valid vma is passed so that the page tables can be walked to find the pfns associated with a given address range. However in some cases the pfns are already known, such as when migrating device coherent pages during pin_user_pages() meaning a valid vma isn't required. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220629035426.20013-6-alex.sierra@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@xxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/migrate_device.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) --- a/mm/migrate_device.c~mm-remove-the-vma-check-in-migrate_vma_setup +++ a/mm/migrate_device.c @@ -486,24 +486,24 @@ int migrate_vma_setup(struct migrate_vma args->start &= PAGE_MASK; args->end &= PAGE_MASK; - if (!args->vma || is_vm_hugetlb_page(args->vma) || - (args->vma->vm_flags & VM_SPECIAL) || vma_is_dax(args->vma)) - return -EINVAL; - if (nr_pages <= 0) - return -EINVAL; - if (args->start < args->vma->vm_start || - args->start >= args->vma->vm_end) - return -EINVAL; - if (args->end <= args->vma->vm_start || args->end > args->vma->vm_end) - return -EINVAL; if (!args->src || !args->dst) return -EINVAL; + if (args->vma) { + if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(args->vma) || + (args->vma->vm_flags & VM_SPECIAL) || vma_is_dax(args->vma)) + return -EINVAL; + if (args->start < args->vma->vm_start || + args->start >= args->vma->vm_end) + return -EINVAL; + if (args->end <= args->vma->vm_start || + args->end > args->vma->vm_end) + return -EINVAL; + memset(args->src, 0, sizeof(*args->src) * nr_pages); + args->cpages = 0; + args->npages = 0; - memset(args->src, 0, sizeof(*args->src) * nr_pages); - args->cpages = 0; - args->npages = 0; - - migrate_vma_collect(args); + migrate_vma_collect(args); + } if (args->cpages) migrate_vma_unmap(args); @@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ void migrate_vma_pages(struct migrate_vm continue; } - if (!page) { + if (!page && migrate->vma) { if (!(migrate->src[i] & MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE)) continue; if (!notified) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from apopple@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-remove-the-vma-check-in-migrate_vma_setup.patch mm-gup-migrate-device-coherent-pages-when-pinning-instead-of-failing.patch