[merged mm-stable] mm-remove-duplicated-vma-vm_flags-check-when-expanding-stack.patch removed from -mm tree

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

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm: remove duplicated vma->vm_flags check when expanding stack
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-remove-duplicated-vma-vm_flags-check-when-expanding-stack.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

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From: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.com>
Subject: mm: remove duplicated vma->vm_flags check when expanding stack
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2023 10:33:12 +0000

expand_upwards() and expand_downwards() will return -EFAULT if VM_GROWSUP
or VM_GROWSDOWN is not correctly set in vma->vm_flags, however in
!CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP case, expand_stack_locked() returns -EINVAL first if
!(vma->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN) before calling expand_downwards(), to keep
the consistency with CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP case, remove this check.

The usages of this function are as below:

A:fs/exec.c
ret = expand_stack_locked(vma, stack_base);
if (ret)
	ret = -EFAULT;

or

B:mm/memory.c mm/mmap.c
if (expand_stack_locked(vma, addr))
	return NULL;

which means the return value will not propagate to other places, so I
believe there is no user-visible effects of this change, and it's
unnecessary to backport to earlier versions.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230906103312.645712-1-xiujianfeng@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: f440fa1ac955 ("mm: make find_extend_vma() fail if write lock not held")
Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/mmap.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/mmap.c~mm-remove-duplicated-vma-vm_flags-check-when-expanding-stack
+++ a/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2159,8 +2159,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct *find_extend_vma_l
 #else
 int expand_stack_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address)
 {
-	if (unlikely(!(vma->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN)))
-		return -EINVAL;
 	return expand_downwards(vma, address);
 }
 
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from xiujianfeng@huawei.com are