The patch below does not apply to the 4.17-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 027232da7c7c1c7f04383f93bd798e475dde5285 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:37:25 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: introduce vma_init() Not all VMAs allocated with vm_area_alloc(). Some of them allocated on stack or in data segment. The new helper can be use to initialize VMA properly regardless where it was allocated. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180724121139.62570-2-kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index d3a3842316b8..31540f166987 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -452,6 +452,12 @@ struct vm_operations_struct { unsigned long addr); }; +static inline void vma_init(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct mm_struct *mm) +{ + vma->vm_mm = mm; + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vma->anon_vma_chain); +} + struct mmu_gather; struct inode; diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index a191c05e757d..1b27babc4c78 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -312,10 +312,8 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm) { struct vm_area_struct *vma = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); - if (vma) { - vma->vm_mm = mm; - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vma->anon_vma_chain); - } + if (vma) + vma_init(vma, mm); return vma; }
