It is more intuitive to go from prev to mid and then next. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> --- mm/mmap.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 1e4be7174964..e7d497237f44 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -912,10 +912,11 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vma_merge(struct vma_iterator *vmi, struct mm_struct *mm, if (vm_flags & VM_SPECIAL) return NULL; - next = find_vma(mm, prev ? prev->vm_end : 0); - mid = next; - if (next && next->vm_end == end) /* cases 6, 7, 8 */ - next = find_vma(mm, next->vm_end); + mid = find_vma(mm, prev ? prev->vm_end : 0); + if (mid && mid->vm_end == end) /* cases 6, 7, 8 */ + next = find_vma(mm, mid->vm_end); + else + next = mid; /* verify some invariant that must be enforced by the caller */ VM_WARN_ON(prev && addr <= prev->vm_start); -- 2.39.2