On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 02:27:53PM +0200, Sumanth Korikkar wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 02:17:04PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:52:09 +0200 Sumanth Korikkar 
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > > --- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> > > > +++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> > > > @@ -96,8 +96,15 @@ static const struct fs_parameter_spec 
> > > > hugetlb_fs_parameters[] = {
> > > >  #define PGOFF_LOFFT_MAX \
> > > >         (((1UL << (PAGE_SHIFT + 1)) - 1) <<  (BITS_PER_LONG - 
> > > > (PAGE_SHIFT + 1)))
> > > >
> > > > -static int hugetlbfs_file_mmap(struct file *file, struct 
> > > > vm_area_struct *vma)
> > > > +static int hugetlb_file_mmap_prepare_success(const struct 
> > > > vm_area_struct *vma)
> > > >  {
> > > > +       /* Unfortunate we have to reassign vma->vm_private_data. */
> > > > +       return hugetlb_vma_lock_alloc((struct vm_area_struct *)vma);
> > > > +}
> > >
> > > Hi Lorenzo,
> > >
> > > The following tests causes the kernel to enter a blocked state,
> > > suggesting an issue related to locking order. I was able to reproduce
> > > this behavior in certain test runs.
> >
> > Thanks.  I pulled this series out of mm.git's mm-stable branch, put it
> > back into mm-unstable.
>
> Hi all,
>
> The issue is reproducible again in linux-next with the following commit:
> 5fdb155933fa ("mm/hugetlbfs: update hugetlbfs to use mmap_prepare")

Andrew - I see this series in mm-unstable, not sure what it's doing there
as I need to rework this (when I get a chance, back from a 2 week vacation
and this week has been - difficult :)

Can we please drop this until I have a chance to respin?

Thanks, Lorenzo

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