On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 08:22:54PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 04:14:24AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > + if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->mprotect) { > > > + error = vma->vm_ops->mprotect(vma, nstart, tmp, prot); > > > + if (error) > > > + goto out; > > > + } > > Based on "... and then the vma owner can do whatever it needs to before > calling mprotect_fixup(), which is already not static", my interpretation > is that Matthew's intent was to do: > > if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->mprotect) > error = = vma->vm_ops->mprotect(vma, nstart, tmp, prot); > else > error = mprotect_fixup(vma, &prev, nstart, tmp, newflags); > if (error) > goto out; > > i.e. make .mprotect() a full replacement as opposed to a prereq hook. Yes, it was. I was just looking at the next patch to be sure this was how I'd been misunderstood.