linux.git/tools/testing/vma/tests, branch master

mm/vma: convert __mmap_region() to use vma_flags_t

2026-04-05T20:53:41+00:00

Update the mmap() implementation logic implemented in __mmap_region() and
functions invoked by it.  The mmap_region() function converts its input
vm_flags_t parameter to a vma_flags_t value which it then passes to
__mmap_region() which uses the vma_flags_t value consistently from then
on.

As part of the change, we convert map_deny_write_exec() to using
vma_flags_t (it was incorrectly using unsigned long before), and place it
in vma.h, as it is only used internal to mm.

With this change, we eliminate the legacy is_shared_maywrite_vm_flags()
helper function which is now no longer required.

We are also able to update the MMAP_STATE() and VMG_MMAP_STATE() macros to
use the vma_flags_t value.

Finally, we update the VMA tests to reflect the change.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1fc33a404c962f02da778da100387cc19bd62153.1774034900.git.ljs@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Anton Ivanov 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chengming Zhou 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Christian Brauner 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Moore 
Cc: Pedro Falcato 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stephen Smalley 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Sven Schnelle 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: WANG Xuerui 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: xu xin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/vma: convert vma_modify_flags[_uffd]() to use vma_flags_t

2026-04-05T20:53:41+00:00

Update the vma_modify_flags() and vma_modify_flags_uffd() functions to
accept a vma_flags_t parameter rather than a vm_flags_t one, and propagate
the changes as needed to implement this change.

Also add vma_flags_reset_once() in replacement of vm_flags_reset_once(). We
still need to be careful here because we need to avoid tearing, so maintain
the assumption that the first system word set of flags are the only ones
that require protection from tearing, and retain this functionality.

We can copy the remainder of VMA flags above 64 bits normally. But
hopefully by the time that happens, we will have replaced the logic that
requires these WRITE_ONCE()'s with something else.

We also replace instances of vm_flags_reset() with a simple write of VMA
flags. We are no longer perform a number of checks, most notable of all the
VMA flags asserts becase:

1. We might be operating on a VMA that is not yet added to the tree.

2. We might be operating on a VMA that is now detached.

3. Really in all but core code, you should be using vma_desc_xxx().

4. Other VMA fields are manipulated with no such checks.

5. It'd be egregious to have to add variants of flag functions just to
   account for cases such as the above, especially when we don't do so for
   other VMA fields. Drivers are the problematic cases and why it was
   especially important (and also for debug as VMA locks were introduced),
   the mmap_prepare work is solving this generally.

Additionally, we can fairly safely assume by this point the soft dirty
flags are being set correctly, so it's reasonable to drop this also.

Finally, update the VMA tests to reflect this.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/51afbb2b8c3681003cc7926647e37335d793836e.1774034900.git.ljs@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Anton Ivanov 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chengming Zhou 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Christian Brauner 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Moore 
Cc: Pedro Falcato 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stephen Smalley 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Sven Schnelle 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: WANG Xuerui 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: xu xin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

tools/testing/vma: update VMA tests to test vma_clear_flags[_mask]()

2026-04-05T20:53:41+00:00

The tests have existing flag clearing logic, so simply expand this to use
the new VMA-specific flag clearing helpers.

Also correct some trivial formatting issue in a macro define.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f5da681d3c33039dd4a838188385796eb8d58373.1774034900.git.ljs@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Anton Ivanov 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chengming Zhou 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Christian Brauner 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Moore 
Cc: Pedro Falcato 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stephen Smalley 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Sven Schnelle 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) 
Cc: WANG Xuerui 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: xu xin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: convert do_brk_flags() to use vma_flags_t

2026-04-05T20:53:40+00:00

In order to be able to do this, we need to change VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS
and friends and update the architecture-specific definitions also.

We then have to update some KSM logic to handle VMA flags, and introduce
VMA_STACK_FLAGS to define the vma_flags_t equivalent of VM_STACK_FLAGS.

We also introduce two helper functions for use during the time we are
converting legacy flags to vma_flags_t values - vma_flags_to_legacy() and
legacy_to_vma_flags().

This enables us to iteratively make changes to break these changes up into
separate parts.

We use these explicitly here to keep VM_STACK_FLAGS around for certain
users which need to maintain the legacy vm_flags_t values for the time
being.

We are no longer able to rely on the simple VM_xxx being set to zero if
the feature is not enabled, so in the case of VM_DROPPABLE we introduce
VMA_DROPPABLE as the vma_flags_t equivalent, which is set to
EMPTY_VMA_FLAGS if the droppable flag is not available.

While we're here, we make the description of do_brk_flags() into a kdoc
comment, as it almost was already.

We use vma_flags_to_legacy() to not need to update the vm_get_page_prot()
logic as this time.

Note that in create_init_stack_vma() we have to replace the BUILD_BUG_ON()
with a VM_WARN_ON_ONCE() as the tested values are no longer build time
available.

We also update mprotect_fixup() to use VMA flags where possible, though we
have to live with a little duplication between vm_flags_t and vma_flags_t
values for the time being until further conversions are made.

While we're here, update VM_SPECIAL to be defined in terms of
VMA_SPECIAL_FLAGS now we have vma_flags_to_legacy().

Finally, we update the VMA tests to reflect these changes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d02e3e45d9a33d7904b149f5604904089fd640ae.1774034900.git.ljs@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) 
Acked-by: Paul Moore 	[SELinux]
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Anton Ivanov 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chengming Zhou 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Christian Brauner 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Pedro Falcato 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stephen Smalley 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Sven Schnelle 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: WANG Xuerui 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: xu xin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

tools/testing/vma: test vma_flags_count,vma[_flags]_test_single_mask

2026-04-05T20:53:40+00:00

Update the VMA tests to assert that vma_flags_count() behaves as expected,
as well as vma_flags_test_single_mask() and vma_test_single_mask().

For the test functions we can simply update the existing vma_test(), et
al.  test to also test the single_mask variants.

We also add some explicit testing of an empty VMA flag to this test to
ensure this is handled properly.

In order to test vma_flags_count() we simply take an existing set of flags
and gradually remove flags ensuring the count remains as expected
throughout.

We also update the vma[_flags]_test_all() tests to make clear the
semantics that we expect vma[_flags]_test_all(..., EMPTY_VMA_FLAGS) to
return true, as trivially, all flags of none are always set in VMA flags.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4af95d559cd2af0ba3388de1e1386b9f94c0e009.1774034900.git.ljs@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Anton Ivanov 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chengming Zhou 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Christian Brauner 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Moore 
Cc: Pedro Falcato 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stephen Smalley 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Sven Schnelle 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) 
Cc: WANG Xuerui 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: xu xin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

tools/testing/vma: update VMA flag tests to test vma_test[_any_mask]()

2026-04-05T20:53:40+00:00

Update the existing test logic to assert that vma_test(), vma_test_any()
and vma_test_any_mask() (implicitly tested via vma_test_any()) are
functioning correctly.

We already have tests for other variants like this, so it's simply a
matter of expanding those tests to also include tests for the VMA-specific
helpers.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/dea3e97c6c3dd86f1a3f1a0703241b03f6e3a33f.1774034900.git.ljs@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Anton Ivanov 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chengming Zhou 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Christian Brauner 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Moore 
Cc: Pedro Falcato 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stephen Smalley 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Sven Schnelle 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) 
Cc: WANG Xuerui 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: xu xin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

tools/testing/vma: test that legacy flag helpers work correctly

2026-04-05T20:53:39+00:00

Update the existing compare_legacy_flags() predicate function to assert
that legacy_to_vma_flags() and vma_flags_to_legacy() behave as expected.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3374e50053adb65818fde948ae3488e1e29ae8b1.1774034900.git.ljs@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Anton Ivanov 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chengming Zhou 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Christian Brauner 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Moore 
Cc: Pedro Falcato 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stephen Smalley 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Sven Schnelle 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) 
Cc: WANG Xuerui 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: xu xin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

tools/testing/vma: add simple test for append_vma_flags()

2026-04-05T20:53:39+00:00

Add a simple test for append_vma_flags() to assert that it behaves as
expected.

Additionally, include the VMA_REMAP_FLAGS definition in the VMA tests to
allow us to use this value in the testing.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/eebd946c5325ad7fae93027245a562eb1aeb68a2.1774034900.git.ljs@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Anton Ivanov 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chengming Zhou 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Christian Brauner 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Moore 
Cc: Pedro Falcato 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stephen Smalley 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Sven Schnelle 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) 
Cc: WANG Xuerui 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: xu xin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

tools/testing/vma: fix VMA flag tests

2026-04-05T20:53:39+00:00

The VMA tests are incorrectly referencing NUM_VMA_FLAGS, which doesn't
exist, rather they should reference NUM_VMA_FLAG_BITS.

Additionally, remove the custom-written implementation of __mk_vma_flags()
as this means we are not testing the code as present in the kernel, rather
add the actual __mk_vma_flags() to dup.h and add #ifdef's to handle
declarations differently depending on NUM_VMA_FLAG_BITS.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b19c63af3d5efdfe712bf5d5f89368a5360a60f7.1774034900.git.ljs@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Anton Ivanov 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chengming Zhou 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Christian Brauner 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Moore 
Cc: Pedro Falcato 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stephen Smalley 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Sven Schnelle 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) 
Cc: WANG Xuerui 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: xu xin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

tools/testing/vma: convert bulk of test code to vma_flags_t

2026-04-05T20:53:38+00:00

Convert the test code to utilise vma_flags_t as opposed to the deprecate
vm_flags_t as much as possible.

As part of this change, add VMA_STICKY_FLAGS and VMA_SPECIAL_FLAGS as
early versions of what these defines will look like in the kernel logic
once this logic is implemented.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/df90efe29300bd899989f695be4ae3adc901a828.1774034900.git.ljs@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Anton Ivanov 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chengming Zhou 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Christian Brauner 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Moore 
Cc: Pedro Falcato 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stephen Smalley 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Sven Schnelle 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) 
Cc: WANG Xuerui 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: xu xin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton