The quilt patch titled Subject: mm: write-lock VMAs before removing them from VMA tree has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-write-lock-vmas-before-removing-them-from-vma-tree.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: write-lock VMAs before removing them from VMA tree Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 09:36:17 -0800 Write-locking VMAs before isolating them ensures that page fault handlers don't operate on isolated VMAs. [surenb@xxxxxxxxxx: mm/nommu: remove unnecessary VMA locking] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230301190457.1498985-1-surenb@xxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y%2F8CJQGNuMUTdLwP@localhost/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-19-surenb@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mmap.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/mm/mmap.c~mm-write-lock-vmas-before-removing-them-from-vma-tree +++ a/mm/mmap.c @@ -2270,6 +2270,7 @@ int split_vma(struct vma_iterator *vmi, static inline int munmap_sidetree(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct ma_state *mas_detach) { + vma_start_write(vma); mas_set_range(mas_detach, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end - 1); if (mas_store_gfp(mas_detach, vma, GFP_KERNEL)) return -ENOMEM; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from surenb@xxxxxxxxxx are