The patch titled
Subject: mm/memory.c: use vma_lookup() in __access_remote_vm()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-memoryc-use-vma_lookup-in-__access_remote_vm.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/memory.c: use vma_lookup() in __access_remote_vm()
Use vma_lookup() to find the VMA at a specific address. As vma_lookup()
will return NULL if the address is not within any VMA, the start address
no longer needs to be validated.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210521174745.2219620-22-Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/memory.c~mm-memoryc-use-vma_lookup-in-__access_remote_vm
+++ a/mm/memory.c
@@ -4994,8 +4994,8 @@ int __access_remote_vm(struct mm_struct
* Check if this is a VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP VMA, which
* we can access using slightly different code.
*/
- vma = find_vma(mm, addr);
- if (!vma || vma->vm_start > addr)
+ vma = vma_lookup(mm, addr);
+ if (!vma)
break;
if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->access)
ret = vma->vm_ops->access(vma, addr, buf,
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from liam.howlett@xxxxxxxxxx are
