On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 03:20:33PM +0100, Mehdi Ben Hadj Khelifa wrote:

The current shmem_allocate_area() implementation uses a hardcoded virtual base address (BASE_PMD_ADDR) as a hint for mmap() when creating shmem-backed test areas. This approach is fragile and may fail on systems with ASLR or different virtual memory layouts, where the chosen address is unavailable.

Replace the static base address with a dynamically reserved address range obtained via mmap(NULL, ..., PROT_NONE). The memfd-backed areas and their alias are then mapped into that reserved region using MAP_FIXED, preserving the original layout and aliasing semantics while avoiding collisions with unrelated mappings.

This change improves robustness and portability of the test suite without altering its behavior or coverage.

Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mehdi Ben Hadj Khelifa mehdi.benhadjkhelifa@gmail.com

Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) rppt@kernel.org

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Testing(Retested): A diff between running the mm selftests on 6.18-rc5 from before and after the change show no regression on x86_64 architecture with 32GB DDR5 RAM.

ChangeLog:

Changes from v1:

-Implemented Mike's suggestions to make cleanup code more clear.

Link:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251111205739.420009-1-mehdi.benhadjkhelifa@gma...

tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-common.c | 24 +++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-common.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-common.c index 994fe8c03923..edd02328f77b 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-common.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-common.c @@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ uffd_test_ops_t *uffd_test_ops; uffd_test_case_ops_t *uffd_test_case_ops; -#define BASE_PMD_ADDR ((void *)(1UL << 30)) /* pthread_mutex_t starts at page offset 0 */ pthread_mutex_t *area_mutex(char *area, unsigned long nr, uffd_global_test_opts_t *gopts) @@ -142,30 +141,37 @@ static int shmem_allocate_area(uffd_global_test_opts_t *gopts, void **alloc_area unsigned long offset = is_src ? 0 : bytes; char *p = NULL, *p_alias = NULL; int mem_fd = uffd_mem_fd_create(bytes * 2, false);

• size_t region_size = bytes * 2 + hpage_size;

• /* TODO: clean this up. Use a static addr is ugly */
• p = BASE_PMD_ADDR;
• if (!is_src)

• /* src map + alias + interleaved hpages */
  

• p += 2 * (bytes + hpage_size);
  

• void *reserve = mmap(NULL, region_size, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS,

• 	-1, 0);
  

• if (reserve == MAP_FAILED) {

• close(mem_fd);
  

• return -errno;
  

• }
• p = reserve; p_alias = p; p_alias += bytes; p_alias += hpage_size; /* Prevent src/dst VMA merge */

• *alloc_area = mmap(p, bytes, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED,

• *alloc_area = mmap(p, bytes, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_FIXED | MAP_SHARED, mem_fd, offset); if (*alloc_area == MAP_FAILED) { *alloc_area = NULL;

• munmap(reserve, region_size);
  

• close(mem_fd);
  

  return -errno; } if (*alloc_area != p) err("mmap of memfd failed at %p", p);

• area_alias = mmap(p_alias, bytes, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED,

• area_alias = mmap(p_alias, bytes, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_FIXED | MAP_SHARED, mem_fd, offset); if (area_alias == MAP_FAILED) {

• munmap(*alloc_area, bytes);
  

  *alloc_area = NULL;

• munmap(reserve, region_size);
  

• close(mem_fd);
  

  return -errno; } if (area_alias != p_alias)

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