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    vm: fix move_vma() memory accounting being off · 3cec5049
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Commit 408579cd ("mm: Update do_vmi_align_munmap() return
    semantics") seems to have updated one of the callers of do_vmi_munmap()
    incorrectly: it used to check for the error case (which didn't
    change: negative means error).
    
    That commit changed the check to the success case (which did change:
    before that commit, 0 was success, and 1 was "success and lock
    downgraded".  After the change, it's always 0 for success, and the lock
    will have been released if requested).
    
    This didn't change any actual VM behavior _except_ for memory accounting
    when 'VM_ACCOUNT' was set on the vma.  Which made the wrong return value
    test fairly subtle, since everything continues to work.
    
    Or rather - it continues to work but the "Committed memory" accounting
    goes all wonky (Committed_AS value in /proc/meminfo), and depending on
    settings that then causes problems much much later as the VM relies on
    bogus statistics for its heuristics.
    
    Revert that one line of the change back to the original logic.
    
    Fixes: 408579cd ("mm: Update do_vmi_align_munmap() return semantics")
    Reported-by: default avatarChristoph Biedl <linux-kernel.bfrz@manchmal.in-ulm.de>
    Reported-bisected-and-tested-by: default avatarMichael Labiuk <michael.labiuk@virtuozzo.com>
    Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
    Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1694366957@msgid.manchmal.in-ulm.de/Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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