On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:19:30 +0500 Muhammad Usama Anjum
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The "locked-in-memory size" limit per process can be non-multiple of
> page_size. The mmap() fails if we try to allocate locked-in-memory
> with same size as the allowed limit if it isn't multiple of the
> page_size because mmap() rounds off the memory size to be allocated
> to next multiple of page_size.
>
> Fix this by flooring the length to be allocated with mmap() to the
> previous multiple of the page_size.
I'd like to understand how this was noticed, what the ongoing effect
might be, etc. To help decide which kernel version(s) need the patch.
> Fixes: 76fe17ef588a ("secretmem: test: add basic selftest for
> memfd_secret(2)")
> Reported-by: "kernelci.org bot" <[email protected]>
Which is one of the reasons we're now placing a Closes: tag after a
Reported-by:.
