The patch titled Subject: memfd-fix-cow-issue-on-map_private-and-f_seal_future_write-mappings-fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is memfd-fix-cow-issue-on-map_private-and-f_seal_future_write-mappings-fix.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/memfd-fix-cow-issue-on-map_private-and-f_seal_future_write-mappings-fix.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/memfd-fix-cow-issue-on-map_private-and-f_seal_future_write-mappings-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: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: memfd-fix-cow-issue-on-map_private-and-f_seal_future_write-mappings-fix reflow comment, per Christoph Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nicolas Geoffray <ngeoffray@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/shmem.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/shmem.c~memfd-fix-cow-issue-on-map_private-and-f_seal_future_write-mappings-fix +++ a/mm/shmem.c @@ -2217,8 +2217,8 @@ static int shmem_mmap(struct file *file, * Since an F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE sealed memfd can be mapped as * MAP_SHARED and read-only, take care to not allow mprotect to * revert protections on such mappings. Do this only for shared - * mappings. For private mappings, don't need to mask VM_MAYWRITE - * as we still want them to be COW-writable. + * mappings. For private mappings, don't need to mask + * VM_MAYWRITE as we still want them to be COW-writable. */ if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) vma->vm_flags &= ~(VM_MAYWRITE); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm.patch mm-swap-disallow-swapon-on-zoned-block-devices-fix.patch rss_stat-add-support-to-detect-rss-updates-of-external-mm-fix.patch mm-pgmap-use-correct-alignment-when-looking-at-first-pfn-from-a-region-checkpatch-fixes.patch memfd-fix-cow-issue-on-map_private-and-f_seal_future_write-mappings-fix.patch mm-oom-avoid-printk-iteration-under-rcu-fix.patch hugetlb-remove-duplicated-code-checkpatch-fixes.patch hugetlb-remove-unused-hstate-in-hugetlb_fault_mutex_hash-fix.patch mm-madvise-replace-with-page_size-in-madvise_inject_error-fix.patch mm-annotate-refault-stalls-from-swap_readpage-fix.patch lib-optimize-cpumask_local_spread-v3-fix.patch usb-kcov-collect-coverage-from-hub_event-fix.patch linux-next-rejects.patch linux-next-git-rejects.patch diff-sucks.patch drivers-block-null_blk_mainc-fix-layout.patch drivers-block-null_blk_mainc-fix-uninitialized-var-warnings.patch bitops-introduce-the-for_each_set_clump8-macro-fix-fix.patch drivers-tty-serial-sh-scic-suppress-warning.patch kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch