The patch titled Subject: mm: reject vmap with VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-reject-vmap-with-vm_flush_reset_perms.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-reject-vmap-with-vm_flush_reset_perms.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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 via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Subject: mm: reject vmap with VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 08:10:42 +0100 Patch series "cleanup vfree and vunmap". This little series untangles the vfree and vunmap code path a bit. This patch (of 10): VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS is just for use with vmalloc as it is tied to freeing the underlying pages. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230121071051.1143058-1-hch@xxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230121071051.1143058-2-hch@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/mm/vmalloc.c~mm-reject-vmap-with-vm_flush_reset_perms +++ a/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -2883,6 +2883,9 @@ void *vmap(struct page **pages, unsigned might_sleep(); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(flags & VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS)) + return NULL; + /* * Your top guard is someone else's bottom guard. Not having a top * guard compromises someone else's mappings too. _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hch@xxxxxx are revert-remoteproc-qcom_q6v5_mss-map-unmap-metadata-region-before-after-use.patch mm-reject-vmap-with-vm_flush_reset_perms.patch mm-remove-__vfree.patch mm-remove-__vfree_deferred.patch mm-move-vmalloc_init-and-free_work-down-in-vmallocc.patch mm-call-vfree-instead-of-__vunmap-from-delayed_vfree_work.patch mm-move-__remove_vm_area-out-of-va_remove_mappings.patch mm-use-remove_vm_area-in-__vunmap.patch mm-move-debug-checks-from-__vunmap-to-remove_vm_area.patch mm-split-__vunmap.patch mm-refactor-va_remove_mappings.patch