Avoid taking an extra trip down the mmap tree by checking the vmas directly. mprotect (per POSIX) tolerates partial failure. Signed-off-by: Pedro Falcato <pedro.falcato@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mprotect.c | 12 +++--------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c index 222ab434da5..b1980ea1cc3 100644 --- a/mm/mprotect.c +++ b/mm/mprotect.c @@ -589,6 +589,9 @@ mprotect_fixup(struct vma_iterator *vmi, struct mmu_gather *tlb, unsigned long charged = 0; int error; + if (!can_modify_vma(vma)) + return -EPERM; + if (newflags == oldflags) { *pprev = vma; return 0; @@ -747,15 +750,6 @@ static int do_mprotect_pkey(unsigned long start, size_t len, } } - /* - * checking if memory is sealed. - * can_modify_mm assumes we have acquired the lock on MM. - */ - if (unlikely(!can_modify_mm(current->mm, start, end))) { - error = -EPERM; - goto out; - } - prev = vma_prev(&vmi); if (start > vma->vm_start) prev = vma; -- 2.46.0