Recently I straced bash behavior in this dd zero pipe to read test, in
part of testing under vm.overcommit_memory=2 (OVERCOMMIT_NEVER mode):

    # dd if=/dev/zero | read x

The bash sub shell is calling mremap to reallocate more and more memory
untill it finally failed -ENOMEM (I expect), or to be killed by system OOM
killer (which should not happen under OVERCOMMIT_NEVER mode); But the
mremap system call actually failed of -EFAULT, which is a surprise to me,
I think it's supposed to be -ENOMEM?  then I wrote this piece of C code
testing confirmed it: https://gist.github.com/crquan/326bde37e1ddda8effe5

    $ ./remap
    allocated one page @0x7f686bf71000, (PAGE_SIZE: 4096)
    grabbed 7680512000 bytes of memory (1875125 pages) @ 00007f6690993000.
    mremap failed Bad address (14).

The -EFAULT comes from the branch of security_vm_enough_memory_mm failure,
underlyingly it calls __vm_enough_memory which returns only 0 for success
or -ENOMEM; So why vma_to_resize needs to return -EFAULT in this case?
this sounds like a mistake to me.

Some more digging into git history:

1) Before commit 119f657c ("RLIMIT_AS checking fix") in May 1 2005
   (pre 2.6.12 days) it was returning -ENOMEM for this failure;

2) but commit 119f657c ("untangling do_mremap(), part 1") changed it
   accidentally, to what ever is preserved in local ret, which happened to
   be -EFAULT, in a previous assignment;

3) then in commit 54f5de70

 code refactoring, it's explicitly returning
   -EFAULT, should be wrong.

Signed-off-by: Derek Che <crquan@ymail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>