The patch titled Subject: mm-fix-vma_is_anonymous-false-positives-fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-fix-vma_is_anonymous-false-positives-fix.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-fix-vma_is_anonymous-false-positives-fix.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-fix-vma_is_anonymous-false-positives-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm-fix-vma_is_anonymous-false-positives-fix add comments Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180711121521.omugjfpuuyxscjjf@kshutemo-mobl1 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mmap.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff -puN mm/mmap.c~mm-fix-vma_is_anonymous-false-positives-fix mm/mmap.c --- a/mm/mmap.c~mm-fix-vma_is_anonymous-false-positives-fix +++ a/mm/mmap.c @@ -71,7 +71,16 @@ int mmap_rnd_compat_bits __read_mostly = static bool ignore_rlimit_data; core_param(ignore_rlimit_data, ignore_rlimit_data, bool, 0644); +/* + * All anonymous VMAs have ->vm_ops set to anon_vm_ops. + * vma_is_anonymous() reiles on anon_vm_ops to detect anonymous VMA. + */ const struct vm_operations_struct anon_vm_ops = {}; + +/* + * All VMAs have to have ->vm_ops set. dummy_vm_ops can be used if the VMA + * doesn't need to handle any of the operations. + */ const struct vm_operations_struct dummy_vm_ops = {}; static void unmap_region(struct mm_struct *mm, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-fix-vma_is_anonymous-false-positives-fix.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html