[merged mm-stable] arm64-gcs-use-the-new-common-vm_mmap_shadow_stack-helper.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] arm64-gcs-use-the-new-common-vm_mmap_shadow_stack-helper.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: arm64: gcs: use the new common vm_mmap_shadow_stack() helper
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     arm64-gcs-use-the-new-common-vm_mmap_shadow_stack-helper.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: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Subject: arm64: gcs: use the new common vm_mmap_shadow_stack() helper
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:13:59 +0000

Replace the arm64 map_shadow_stack() content with a call to
vm_mmap_shadow_stack().  There is no functional change.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260225161404.3157851-3-catalin.marinas@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
Cc: "Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 arch/arm64/mm/gcs.c |   14 +-------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 13 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm64/mm/gcs.c~arm64-gcs-use-the-new-common-vm_mmap_shadow_stack-helper
+++ a/arch/arm64/mm/gcs.c
@@ -12,19 +12,7 @@
 
 static unsigned long alloc_gcs(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size)
 {
-	int flags = MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE;
-	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
-	unsigned long mapped_addr, unused;
-
-	if (addr)
-		flags |= MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE;
-
-	mmap_write_lock(mm);
-	mapped_addr = do_mmap(NULL, addr, size, PROT_READ, flags,
-			      VM_SHADOW_STACK | VM_WRITE, 0, &unused, NULL);
-	mmap_write_unlock(mm);
-
-	return mapped_addr;
+	return vm_mmap_shadow_stack(addr, size, 0);
 }
 
 static unsigned long gcs_size(unsigned long size)
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from catalin.marinas@arm.com are