The quilt patch titled Subject: mm: mark VMA as being written when changing vm_flags has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-mark-vma-as-being-written-when-changing-vm_flags.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: mark VMA as being written when changing vm_flags Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 09:36:12 -0800 Updates to vm_flags have to be done with VMA marked as being written for preventing concurrent page faults or other modifications. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-14-surenb@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/mm.h | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/mm.h~mm-mark-vma-as-being-written-when-changing-vm_flags +++ a/include/linux/mm.h @@ -727,28 +727,28 @@ static inline void vm_flags_init(struct static inline void vm_flags_reset(struct vm_area_struct *vma, vm_flags_t flags) { - mmap_assert_write_locked(vma->vm_mm); + vma_start_write(vma); vm_flags_init(vma, flags); } static inline void vm_flags_reset_once(struct vm_area_struct *vma, vm_flags_t flags) { - mmap_assert_write_locked(vma->vm_mm); + vma_start_write(vma); WRITE_ONCE(ACCESS_PRIVATE(vma, __vm_flags), flags); } static inline void vm_flags_set(struct vm_area_struct *vma, vm_flags_t flags) { - mmap_assert_write_locked(vma->vm_mm); + vma_start_write(vma); ACCESS_PRIVATE(vma, __vm_flags) |= flags; } static inline void vm_flags_clear(struct vm_area_struct *vma, vm_flags_t flags) { - mmap_assert_write_locked(vma->vm_mm); + vma_start_write(vma); ACCESS_PRIVATE(vma, __vm_flags) &= ~flags; } @@ -769,7 +769,7 @@ static inline void __vm_flags_mod(struct static inline void vm_flags_mod(struct vm_area_struct *vma, vm_flags_t set, vm_flags_t clear) { - mmap_assert_write_locked(vma->vm_mm); + vma_start_write(vma); __vm_flags_mod(vma, set, clear); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from surenb@xxxxxxxxxx are