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| author | Kirill A. Shutemov | 2018-07-26 16:37:25 -0700 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2018-07-26 19:38:03 -0700 |
| commit | 027232da7c7c1c7f04383f93bd798e475dde5285 (patch) | |
| tree | cff44e09fbd8b37334ae734a06be980ec6c01243 | |
| parent | 31c5bda3a656089f01963d290a40ccda181f816e (diff) | |
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@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
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; } |