kernel/linux.git/mm/vma.c, branch v7.1

mm/vma: do not try to unmap a VMA if mmap_prepare() invoked from mmap()

2026-04-27T12:54:24+00:00

The mmap_prepare hook functionality includes the ability to invoke mmap_prepare() from the mmap() hook of existing 'stacked' drivers, that is ones which are capable of calling the mmap hooks of other drivers/file systems (e.g. overlayfs, shm). As part of the mmap_prepare action functionality, we deal with errors by unmapping the VMA should one arise. This works in the usual mmap_prepare case, as we invoke this action at the last moment, when the VMA is established in the maple tree. However, the mmap() hook passes a not-fully-established VMA pointer to the caller (which is the motivation behind the mmap_prepare() work), which is detached. So attempting to unmap a VMA in this state will be problematic, with the most obvious symptom being a warning in vma_mark_detached(), because the VMA is already detached. It's also unncessary - the mmap() handler will clean up the VMA on error. So to fix this issue, this patch propagates whether or not an mmap action is being completed via the compatibility layer or directly. If the former, then we do not attempt VMA cleanup, if the latter, then we do. This patch also updates the userland VMA tests to reflect the change. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260421102150.189982-1-ljs@kernel.org Fixes: ac0a3fc9c07d ("mm: add ability to take further action in vm_area_desc") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reported-by: syzbot+db390288d141a1dccf96@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/69e69734.050a0220.24bfd3.0027.GAE@google.com/ Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Pedro Falcato Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-04-15T19:59:16+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" (Liam Howlett) Mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce stack usage and is an improvement. - "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" (Kairui Song) Offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields some CPU savings and implements several cleanups. - "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" (Pratyush Yadav) File seal preservation to LUO's memfd code - "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" (Jiayuan Chen) Additional userspace stats reportng to zswap - "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" (Mike Rapoport) Some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn - "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" (Zhongqiu Han) A robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code - "Improve khugepaged scan logic" (Vernon Yang) Improve khugepaged scan logic and reduce CPU consumption by prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently - "Make KHO Stateless" (Jason Miu) Simplify Kexec Handover by transitioning KHO from an xarray-based metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel - "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" (Thomas Ballasi and Steven Rostedt) Enhance vmscan's tracepointing - "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and VM_NOHUGEPAGE" (Catalin Marinas) Cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of a generic implementation - "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" (Pasha Tatashin) Fix a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area - "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" (Tal Zussman) Several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec", which became folio_batch three years ago - "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" (Kiryl Shutsemau) Simplify the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail pages encode their relationship to the head page - "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer filters" (SeongJae Park) Improve two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less efficient when core layer filters are used - "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" (SeongJae Park) Improve DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the min_nr_regions user-settable parameter - "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" (Vlastimil Babka) The proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code simplifications and cleanups ensued - "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" (David Hildenbrand) A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of zapping functions - "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang) Batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64 - "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" (Johannes Weiner) memcg cleanup and robustness improvements - "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" (Yuvraj Sakshith) Enhance free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0 pages when reporting free memory. - "mm: vma flag tweaks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to a bitmap - "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" (SeongJae Park) Add some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core - "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement" (SeongJae Park) An additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the addr_unit parameter handling - "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons overflow-safe" (SeongJae Park) Fix a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core - "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and documentation" (SeongJae Park) A batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups for DAMON - "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" (David Hildenbrand) Fix a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code movement was required. - "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" (Sergey Senozhatsky) A somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and improvements in the zram code - "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms" (SeongJae Park) Extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning algorithms that users can select - "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" (Breno Leitao) Fix the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged - "mm: improve map count checks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Provide some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma code - "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for modules" (SeongJae Park) Extend the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable - "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" (Nico Pache) Cleanups to khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged mTHP support - "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" (David Hildenbrand) Code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code - "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup CONFIG_MIGRATION" (David Hildenbrand) Rationalize some memhotplug Kconfig support - "change young flag check functions to return bool" (Baolin Wang) Cleanups to change all young flag check functions to return bool - "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" (Josh Law and SeongJae Park) Fix a few potential DAMON bugs - "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Convert a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. Mainly in the vma code. - "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Expand the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and security issues for some time. Cleanups, documentation, extension of mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers - "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Simplify and clean up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed. * tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits) mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration mm/khugepaged: fix issue with tracking lock mm/huge_memory: add and use has_deposited_pgtable() mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd() mm: add softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(), pmd_to_softleaf_folio() mm/huge_memory: separate out the folio part of zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: use mm instead of tlb->mm mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary sanity checks mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge() mm: on remap assert that input range within the proposed VMA mm: add mmap_action_map_kernel_pages[_full]() uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info drivers: hv: vmbus: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare mm: allow handling of stacked mmap_prepare hooks in more drivers ...

mm/vma: fix memory leak in __mmap_region()

2026-04-06T18:13:43+00:00

commit 605f6586ecf7 ("mm/vma: do not leak memory when .mmap_prepare swaps the file") handled the success path by skipping get_file() via file_doesnt_need_get, but missed the error path. When /dev/zero is mmap'd with MAP_SHARED, mmap_zero_prepare() calls shmem_zero_setup_desc() which allocates a new shmem file to back the mapping. If __mmap_new_vma() subsequently fails, this replacement file is never fput()'d - the original is released by ksys_mmap_pgoff(), but nobody releases the new one. Add fput() for the swapped file in the error path. Reproducible with fault injection. FAULT_INJECTION: forcing a failure. name failslab, interval 1, probability 0, space 0, times 1 CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 366 Comm: syz.7.14 Not tainted 7.0.0-rc6 #2 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC v2 (i440FX + PIIX, arch_caps fix, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x164/0x1f0 should_fail_ex+0x525/0x650 should_failslab+0xdf/0x140 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x78/0x630 vm_area_alloc+0x24/0x160 __mmap_region+0xf6b/0x2660 mmap_region+0x2eb/0x3a0 do_mmap+0xc79/0x1240 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x252/0x4c0 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0xf8/0x120 __x64_sys_mmap+0x12a/0x190 do_syscall_64+0xa9/0x580 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e kmemleak: 1 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff8881118aca80 (size 360): comm "syz.7.14", pid 366, jiffies 4294913255 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N.......... ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff c0 28 4d ae ff ff ff ff .........(M..... backtrace (crc db0f53bc): kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x3ab/0x630 alloc_empty_file+0x5a/0x1e0 alloc_file_pseudo+0x135/0x220 __shmem_file_setup+0x274/0x420 shmem_zero_setup_desc+0x9c/0x170 mmap_zero_prepare+0x123/0x140 __mmap_region+0xdda/0x2660 mmap_region+0x2eb/0x3a0 do_mmap+0xc79/0x1240 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x252/0x4c0 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0xf8/0x120 __x64_sys_mmap+0x12a/0x190 do_syscall_64+0xa9/0x580 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e Found by syzkaller. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260331180811.1333348-1-rhkrqnwk98@gmail.com Fixes: 605f6586ecf7 ("mm/vma: do not leak memory when .mmap_prepare swaps the file") Signed-off-by: Sechang Lim Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Cc: Pedro Falcato Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: add vm_ops->mapped hook

2026-04-05T20:53:43+00:00

Previously, when a driver needed to do something like establish a reference count, it could do so in the mmap hook in the knowledge that the mapping would succeed. With the introduction of f_op->mmap_prepare this is no longer the case, as it is invoked prior to actually establishing the mapping. mmap_prepare is not appropriate for this kind of thing as it is called before any merge might take place, and after which an error might occur meaning resources could be leaked. To take this into account, introduce a new vm_ops->mapped callback which is invoked when the VMA is first mapped (though notably - not when it is merged - which is correct and mirrors existing mmap/open/close behaviour). We do better that vm_ops->open() here, as this callback can return an error, at which point the VMA will be unmapped. Note that vm_ops->mapped() is invoked after any mmap action is complete (such as I/O remapping). We intentionally do not expose the VMA at this point, exposing only the fields that could be used, and an output parameter in case the operation needs to update the vma->vm_private_data field. In order to deal with stacked filesystems which invoke inner filesystem's mmap() invocations, add __compat_vma_mapped() and invoke it on vfs_mmap() (via compat_vma_mmap()) to ensure that the mapped callback is handled when an mmap() caller invokes a nested filesystem's mmap_prepare() callback. Update the mmap_prepare documentation to describe the mapped hook and make it clear what its intended use is. The vm_ops->mapped() call is handled by the mmap complete logic to ensure the same code paths are handled by both the compatibility and VMA layers. Additionally, update VMA userland test headers to reflect the change. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4c5e98297eb0aae9565c564e1c296a112702f144.1774045440.git.ljs@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexandre Torgue Cc: Al Viro Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Bodo Stroesser Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Clemens Ladisch Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Howells Cc: Dexuan Cui Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Haiyang Zhang Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Long Li Cc: Marc Dionne Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: Maxime Coquelin Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Miquel Raynal Cc: Pedro Falcato Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra Cc: Wei Liu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: have mmap_action_complete() handle the rmap lock and unmap

2026-04-05T20:53:42+00:00

Rather than have the callers handle this both the rmap lock release and unmapping the VMA on error, handle it within the mmap_action_complete() logic where it makes sense to, being careful not to unlock twice. This simplifies the logic and makes it harder to make mistake with this, while retaining correct behaviour with regard to avoiding deadlocks. Also replace the call_action_complete() function with a direct invocation of mmap_action_complete() as the abstraction is no longer required. Also update the VMA tests to reflect this change. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/8d1ee8ebd3542d006a47e8382fb80cf5b57ecf10.1774045440.git.ljs@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexandre Torgue Cc: Al Viro Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Bodo Stroesser Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Clemens Ladisch Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Howells Cc: Dexuan Cui Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Haiyang Zhang Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Long Li Cc: Marc Dionne Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: Maxime Coquelin Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Miquel Raynal Cc: Pedro Falcato Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra Cc: Wei Liu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/vma: remove superfluous map->hold_file_rmap_lock

2026-04-05T20:53:42+00:00

We don't need to reference this field, it's confusing as it duplicates mmap_action->hide_from_rmap_until_complete, so thread the mmap_action through to __mmap_new_vma() instead and use the same field consistently. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/42c3fbb701e361a17193ecda0d2dabcc326288a5.1774045440.git.ljs@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexandre Torgue Cc: Al Viro Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Bodo Stroesser Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Clemens Ladisch Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Howells Cc: Dexuan Cui Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Haiyang Zhang Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Long Li Cc: Marc Dionne Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: Maxime Coquelin Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Miquel Raynal Cc: Pedro Falcato Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra Cc: Wei Liu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: avoid deadlock when holding rmap on mmap_prepare error

2026-04-05T20:53:42+00:00

Commit ac0a3fc9c07d ("mm: add ability to take further action in vm_area_desc") added the ability for drivers to instruct mm to take actions after the .mmap_prepare callback is complete. To make life simpler and safer, this is done before the VMA/mmap write lock is dropped but when the VMA is completely established. So on error, we simply munmap() the VMA. As part of this implementation, unfortunately a horrible hack had to be implemented to support some questionable behaviour hugetlb relies upon - that is that the file rmap lock is held until the operation is complete. The implementation, for convenience, did this in mmap_action_finish() so both the VMA and mmap_prepare compatibility layer paths would have this correctly handled. However, it turns out there is a mistake here - the rmap lock cannot be held on munmap, as free_pgtables() -> unlink_file_vma_batch_add() -> unlink_file_vma_batch_process() takes the file rmap lock. We therefore currently have a deadlock issue that might arise. Resolve this by leaving it to callers to handle the unmap. The compatibility layer does not support this rmap behaviour, so we simply have it unmap on error after calling mmap_action_complete(). In the VMA implementation, we only perform the unmap after the rmap lock is dropped. This resolves the issue by ensuring the rmap lock is always dropped when the unmap occurs. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d44248be9da68258b07c2c59d4e73485ee0ca943.1774045440.git.ljs@kernel.org Fixes: ac0a3fc9c07d ("mm: add ability to take further action in vm_area_desc") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexandre Torgue Cc: Al Viro Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Bodo Stroesser Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Clemens Ladisch Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Howells Cc: Dexuan Cui Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Haiyang Zhang Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Long Li Cc: Marc Dionne Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: Maxime Coquelin Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Miquel Raynal Cc: Pedro Falcato Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra Cc: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) Cc: Wei Liu Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: various small mmap_prepare cleanups

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

Patch series "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage", v4. This series expands the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and security issues for some time. This series starts with some cleanup of existing mmap_prepare logic, then adds documentation for the mmap_prepare call to make it easier for filesystem and driver writers to understand how it works. It then importantly adds a vm_ops->mapped hook, a key feature that was missing from mmap_prepare previously - this is invoked when a driver which specifies mmap_prepare has successfully been mapped but not merged with another VMA. mmap_prepare is invoked prior to a merge being attempted, so you cannot manipulate state such as reference counts as if it were a new mapping. The vm_ops->mapped hook allows a driver to perform tasks required at this stage, and provides symmetry against subsequent vm_ops->open,close calls. The series uses this to correct the afs implementation which wrongly manipulated reference count at mmap_prepare time. It then adds an mmap_prepare equivalent of vm_iomap_memory() - mmap_action_simple_ioremap(), then uses this to update a number of drivers. It then splits out the mmap_prepare compatibility layer (which allows for invocation of mmap_prepare hooks in an mmap() hook) in such a way as to allow for more incremental implementation of mmap_prepare hooks. It then uses this to extend mmap_prepare usage in drivers. Finally it adds an mmap_prepare equivalent of vm_map_pages(), which lays the foundation for future work which will extend mmap_prepare to DMA coherent mappings. This patch (of 21): Rather than passing arbitrary fields, pass a vm_area_desc pointer to mmap prepare functions to mmap prepare, and an action and vma pointer to mmap complete in order to put all the action-specific logic in the function actually doing the work. Additionally, allow mmap prepare functions to return an error so we can error out as soon as possible if there is something logically incorrect in the input. Update remap_pfn_range_prepare() to properly check the input range for the CoW case. Also remove io_remap_pfn_range_complete(), as we can simply set up the fields correctly in io_remap_pfn_range_prepare() and use remap_pfn_range_complete() for this. While we're here, make remap_pfn_range_prepare_vma() a little neater, and pass mmap_action directly to call_action_complete(). Then, update compat_vma_mmap() to perform its logic directly, as __compat_vma_map() is not used by anything so we don't need to export it. Also update compat_vma_mmap() to use vfs_mmap_prepare() rather than calling the mmap_prepare op directly. Finally, update the VMA userland tests to reflect the changes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1774045440.git.ljs@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/99f408e4694f44ab12bdc55fe0bd9685d3bd1117.1774045440.git.ljs@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexandre Torgue Cc: Al Viro Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Bodo Stroesser Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Clemens Ladisch Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Howells Cc: Dexuan Cui Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Haiyang Zhang Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Long Li Cc: Marc Dionne Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: Maxime Coquelin Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Miquel Raynal Cc: Pedro Falcato Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra Cc: Wei Liu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: simplify VMA flag tests of excluded flags

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

We have implemented flag mask comparisons of the form: if ((vm_flags & (VM_FOO|VM_BAR|VM_BAZ) == VM_FOO) { ... } Like-for-like in the code using a bitwise-and mask via vma_flags_and() and using vma_flags_same() to ensure the final result equals only the required flag value. This is fine but confusing, make things clearer by instead explicitly excluding undesired flags and including the desired one via tests of the form: if (vma_flags_test(&flags, VMA_FOO_BIT) && !vma_flags_test_any(&flags, VMA_BAR_BIT, VMA_BAZ_BIT)) { ... } Which makes it easier to understand what is going on. No functional change intended. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d395c5dd837a9864f5efcec42175910afbe3ce73.1774034900.git.ljs@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) 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 __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