[PATCH v2 2/4] KVM: selftests: Fix unaligned mmap allocations
Sean Christopherson
seanjc at google.com
Mon Nov 3 13:08:06 PST 2025
On Tue, Oct 28, 2025, Jack Thomson wrote:
>
>
> On 23/10/2025 6:16 pm, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 13, 2025, Jack Thomson wrote:
> > > From: Jack Thomson <jackabt at amazon.com>
> > >
> > > When creating a VM using mmap with huge pages, and the memory amount does
> > > not align with the underlying page size. The stored mmap_size value does
> > > not account for the fact that mmap will automatically align the length
> > > to a multiple of the underlying page size. During the teardown of the
> > > test, munmap is used. However, munmap requires the length to be a
> > > multiple of the underlying page size.
> >
> > What happens when selftests use the wrong map_size? E.g. is munmap() silently
> > failing? If so, then I should probably take this particular patch through
> > kvm-x86/gmem, otherwise it means we'll start getting asserts due to:
> >
> > 3223560c93eb ("KVM: selftests: Define wrappers for common syscalls to assert success")
> >
> > If munmap() isn't failing, then that begs the question of what this patch is
> > actually doing :-)
> >
>
> Hi Sean, sorry I completely missed your reply.
>
> Yeah currently with a misaligned map_size it causes munmap() to fail, I
> noticed when tested with different backings.
Exactly which tests fail? I ask because I'm not sure we want to fix this by
having vm_mem_add() paper over test issues (I vaguely recall looking at this in
the past, but I can't find or recall the details).
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