6f12be792f
Since 6.1 we have noticed random rpm install failures that were tracked to
mremap() returning -ENOMEM and to commit ca3d76b0aa80 ("mm: add merging
after mremap resize").
The problem occurs when mremap() expands a VMA in place, but using an
starting address that's not vma->vm_start, but somewhere in the middle.
The extension_pgoff calculation introduced by the commit is wrong in that
case, so vma_merge() fails due to pgoffs not being compatible. Fix the
calculation.
By the way it seems that the situations, where rpm now expands a vma from
the middle, were made possible also due to that commit, thanks to the
improved vma merging. Yet it should work just fine, except for the buggy
calculation.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221216163227.24648-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Link: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1206359
Fixes: ca3d76b0aa80 ("mm: add merging after mremap resize")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jakub Matěna <matenajakub@gmail.com>
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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