The patch titled
Subject: mm/madvise: use vma_lookup() instead of find_vma()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-madvise-use-vma_lookup-instead-of-find_vma.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-madvise-use-vma_lookup-instead-of-find_vma.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-madvise-use-vma_lookup-instead-of-find_vma.patch
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From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/madvise: use vma_lookup() instead of find_vma()
Using vma_lookup() verifies the start address is contained in the found
vma. This results in easier to read the code.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220311082731.63513-1-linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/madvise.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/madvise.c~mm-madvise-use-vma_lookup-instead-of-find_vma
+++ a/mm/madvise.c
@@ -849,8 +849,8 @@ static long madvise_populate(struct vm_a
* our VMA might have been split.
*/
if (!vma || start >= vma->vm_end) {
- vma = find_vma(mm, start);
- if (!vma || start < vma->vm_start)
+ vma = vma_lookup(mm, start);
+ if (!vma)
return -ENOMEM;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-memremap-avoid-calling-kasan_remove_zero_shadow-for-device-private-memory.patch
filemap-remove-find_get_pages.patch
mm-writeback-minor-clean-up-for-highmem_dirtyable_memory.patch
mm-use-helper-function-range_in_vma.patch
mm-use-helper-macro-min-and-max-in-unmap_mapping_range_tree.patch
mm-mmap-remove-obsolete-comment-in-ksys_mmap_pgoff.patch
mm-sparse-make-mminit_validate_memmodel_limits-static.patch
mm-vmalloc-remove-unneeded-function-forward-declaration.patch
mm-mmzoneh-remove-unused-macros.patch
mm-memory-failurec-minor-clean-up-for-memory_failure_dev_pagemap.patch
mm-memory-failurec-catch-unexpected-efault-from-vma_address.patch
mm-memory-failurec-rework-the-signaling-logic-in-kill_proc.patch
mm-memory-failurec-fix-race-with-changing-page-more-robustly.patch
mm-memory-failurec-remove-pageslab-check-in-hwpoison_filter_dev.patch
mm-memory-failurec-rework-the-try_to_unmap-logic-in-hwpoison_user_mappings.patch
mm-memory-failurec-remove-obsolete-comment-in-__soft_offline_page.patch
mm-memory-failurec-remove-unnecessary-pagetranstail-check.patch
mm-hwpoison-inject-support-injecting-hwpoison-to-free-page.patch
mm-mlock-fix-potential-imbalanced-rlimit-ucounts-adjustment.patch
mm-hugetlb-use-helper-macro-__attr_rw.patch
mm-huge_memory-remove-unneeded-local-variable-follflags.patch
mm-mempolicy-fix-potential-mpol_new-leak-in-shared_policy_replace.patch
mm-oom_kill-remove-unneeded-is_memcg_oom-check.patch
mm-ksm-use-helper-macro-__attr_rw.patch
mm-madvise-use-vma_lookup-instead-of-find_vma.patch
mm-memory_hotplug-remove-obsolete-comment-of-__add_pages.patch
mm-memory_hotplug-avoid-calling-zone_intersects-for-zone_normal.patch
mm-memory_hotplug-clean-up-try_offline_node.patch
mm-memory_hotplug-fix-misplaced-comment-in-offline_pages.patch
mm-highmem-remove-unnecessary-done-label.patch
mm-hmmc-remove-unneeded-local-variable-ret.patch
kernel-ksysfsc-use-helper-macro-__attr_rw.patch
kernel-resource-fix-kfree-of-bootmem-memory-again.patch
mm-huge_memory-make-is_transparent_hugepage-static.patch
