+ mm-reject-vmap-with-vm_flush_reset_perms.patch added to mm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

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

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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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@lst.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230121071051.1143058-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---


--- 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@lst.de 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