+ mm-abstract-vma_address-and-introduce-vma_anon_address.patch added to mm-new branch

+ mm-abstract-vma_address-and-introduce-vma_anon_address.patch added to mm-new branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm: abstract vma_address() and introduce vma_anon_address()
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     mm-abstract-vma_address-and-introduce-vma_anon_address.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-abstract-vma_address-and-introduce-vma_anon_address.patch

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    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
Subject: mm: abstract vma_address() and introduce vma_anon_address()
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:38:29 +0100

Introduce __vma_address() which abstracts the VMA start page offset field
as pgoff_start, then update vma_address() to use it.

Then introduce vma_anon_address() which does the equivalent of
vma_address(), only using the virtual page offset of the VMA rather than
the file-backed one.

Also add an assert to ensure that the function is not called for mappings
which are file-backed but not MAP_PRIVATE to ensure it is only used in the
correct places.

This will be necessary for determining the address of a folio's index
within a VMA when the folio belongs to a MAP_PRIVATE file-backed VMA but
has been CoW'd, and thus is anonymous, once the anonymous VMA page offset
field is used for the reverse mapping.

No callers are updated, so no functional change intended.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260720-b4-scalable-cow-virt-pgoff-v2-3-2d549757a76f@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/internal.h |   49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/internal.h~mm-abstract-vma_address-and-introduce-vma_anon_address
+++ a/mm/internal.h
@@ -1005,19 +1005,9 @@ void mlock_drain_remote(int cpu);
 
 extern pmd_t maybe_pmd_mkwrite(pmd_t pmd, struct vm_area_struct *vma);
 
-/**
- * vma_address - Find the virtual address a page range is mapped at
- * @vma: The vma which maps this object.
- * @pgoff: The page offset within its object.
- * @nr_pages: The number of pages to consider.
- *
- * If any page in this range is mapped by this VMA, return the first address
- * where any of these pages appear.  Otherwise, return -EFAULT.
- */
-static inline unsigned long vma_address(const struct vm_area_struct *vma,
-		pgoff_t pgoff, unsigned long nr_pages)
+static inline unsigned long __vma_address(const struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+		pgoff_t pgoff, pgoff_t pgoff_start, unsigned long nr_pages)
 {
-	const pgoff_t pgoff_start = vma_start_pgoff(vma);
 	unsigned long address;
 
 	if (pgoff >= pgoff_start) {
@@ -1035,6 +1025,41 @@ static inline unsigned long vma_address(
 	return address;
 }
 
+/**
+ * vma_address - Find the virtual address a page range is mapped at.
+ * @vma: The vma which maps this object.
+ * @pgoff: The page offset within its object.
+ * @nr_pages: The number of pages to consider.
+ *
+ * If any page in this range is mapped by this VMA, return the first address
+ * where any of these pages appear.  Otherwise, return -EFAULT.
+ */
+static inline unsigned long vma_address(const struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+		pgoff_t pgoff, unsigned long nr_pages)
+{
+	return __vma_address(vma, pgoff, vma_start_pgoff(vma), nr_pages);
+}
+
+/**
+ * vma_anon_address - Find the address an anonymous folio with index @pgoff_virt
+ * is mapped at.
+ * @vma: The vma which maps this object.
+ * @pgoff_virt: The virtual page index belonging to the folio.
+ * @nr_pages: The number of pages to consider.
+ *
+ * This is only valid for anonymous or MAP_PRIVATE-mapped file-backed VMAs.
+ *
+ * Returns: If any page in this range is mapped by this VMA, return the first address
+ * where any of these pages appear. Otherwise, return -EFAULT.
+ */
+static inline unsigned long vma_anon_address(const struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+		pgoff_t pgoff_virt, unsigned long nr_pages)
+{
+	VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!vma_is_anonymous(vma) && vma_test(vma, VMA_SHARED_BIT));
+
+	return __vma_address(vma, pgoff_virt, vma_start_virt_pgoff(vma), nr_pages);
+}
+
 /*
  * Then at what user virtual address will none of the range be found in vma?
  * Assumes that vma_address() already returned a good starting address.
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from ljs@kernel.org are

mm-vmalloc-acquire-init_mm-lock-on-huge-vmap-to-avoid-ptdump-uaf.patch
x86-mm-pat-acquire-init_mm-write-lock-on-collapse-to-avoid-uaf.patch
x86-mm-pat-acquire-init_mm-read-lock-on-attribute-change-to-avoid-uaf.patch
mm-ptdump-always-stabilise-against-page-table-freeing-using-init_mm.patch
arm64-remove-redundant-concurrent-ptdump-uaf-mitigation.patch
mm-move-alloc-tag-to-mm.patch
mm-move-vma_start_pgoff-into-mmh-and-clean-up.patch
mm-add-kdoc-comments-for-vma_start-last_pgoff.patch
tools-testing-vma-use-vma_start_pgoff-in-merge-tests.patch
mm-introduce-and-use-vma_end_pgoff.patch
mm-rmap-update-mm-interval_treec-comments.patch
mm-rmap-parameterise-vma_interval_tree_-by-address_space.patch
mm-rmap-elide-unnecessary-static-inlines-in-interval_treec.patch
mm-rmap-rename-vma_interval_tree_-to-mapping_rmap_tree_.patch
mm-rmap-parameterise-anon_vma_interval_tree_-by-anon_vma.patch
mm-rmap-rename-anon_vma_interval_tree_-params-and-use-pgoff_t.patch
mm-rmap-rename-anon_vma_interval_tree_-to-anon_rmap_tree_.patch
maintainers-move-mm-interval_treec-to-rmap-section.patch
mm-vma-introduce-and-use-vmg_pages-vmg__pgoff.patch
mm-vma-clean-up-anon_vma_compatible.patch
mm-vma-refactor-vmg_adjust_set_range-for-clarity.patch
mm-vma-minor-cleanup-of-expand_.patch
mm-introduce-and-use-linear_page_delta.patch
mm-vma-use-vma_start_pgoff-linear_page_index-in-mm-code.patch
mm-prefer-vma__pgoff-to-vma-vm_pgoff-in-kernel.patch
mm-vma-remove-duplicative-vma_pgoff_offset-helper.patch
mm-use-linear_page_-consistently.patch
mm-vma-introduce-vma_assert_can_modify.patch
mm-vma-add-and-use-vma__pgoff.patch
mm-vma-move-__install_special_mapping-to-vmac.patch
mm-vma-make-vma_set_range-static-drop-insert_vm_struct-decl.patch
mm-vma-update-vma_shrink-to-not-pass-start-pgoff-parameters.patch
mm-vma-update-vmg_adjust_set_range-to-offset-pgoff-instead.patch
mm-vma-slightly-rework-the-anonymous-check-in-__mmap_new_vma.patch
mm-vma-introduce-and-use-vma_set_pgoff.patch
mm-vma-correct-incorrect-vmah-inclusion.patch
mm-vma-use-guard-clauses-in-can_vma_merge_.patch
tools-testing-vma-default-vma-mm-flag-bits-to-64-bit.patch
tools-testing-vma-output-compared-expression-on-assert_.patch
mm-introduce-vma_flags_can_grow-and-vma_can_grow.patch
mm-vma-update-do_mmap-to-use-vma_flags_t.patch
mm-convert-__get_unmapped_area-to-use-vma_flags_t.patch
mm-update-generic_get_unmapped_area-to-use-vma_flags_t.patch
mm-prefer-mm-def_vma_flags-in-mm-logic.patch
mm-vma-convert-vm_pgprot_modify-to-use-vma_flags_t-and-rename.patch
mm-vma-rename-vma_get_page_prot-to-vma_flags_to_page_prot.patch
mm-introduce-vma_get_page_prot-and-use-it.patch
mm-vma-update-create_init_stack_vma-to-use-vma_flags_t.patch
mm-vma-convert-miscellaneous-uses-of-vma-flags-in-core-mm.patch
mm-mlock-convert-mlock-code-to-use-vma_flags_t.patch
mm-mprotect-convert-mprotect-code-to-use-vma_flags_t.patch
mm-mremap-convert-mremap-code-to-use-vma_flags_t.patch
mm-mseal-remove-superfluous-comments-fix-confusion-around-mm.patch
mm-mseal-limit-scope-of-mseal-address-zero-to-address-zero.patch
mm-mseal-remove-further-superfluous-comments-do_mseal.patch
mm-vma-introduce-vma-virtual-page-offset-field-and-add-helpers.patch
mm-introduce-linear_virt_page_index.patch
mm-abstract-vma_address-and-introduce-vma_anon_address.patch
mm-update-print_bad_page_map-to-show-virtual-page-index.patch
mm-introduce-and-use-vma_filebacked_address.patch
mm-propagate-vma-virtual-page-offset-on-map-remap-split-merge.patch
mm-rmap-track-whether-the-page-vma-mapped-walk-is-anonymous.patch
mm-introduce-and-use-linear_folio_page_index.patch
mm-rmap-use-virt-pgoff-for-map_private-file-backed-anon-folios.patch
tools-testing-vma-expand-vma-merge-tests-to-assert-virt-pgoff.patch
tools-testing-selftests-mm-test-virtual-page-offset-merge-behaviour.patch
mm-vma-only-permit-map_private-dev-zero-to-be-mapped-anonymous.patch
mm-vma-make-map_private-mapped-dev-zero-mappings-truly-anonymous.patch
tools-testing-vma-add-test-to-assert-map_private-dev-zero-is-anon.patch
tools-testing-selftests-mm-add-map_private-dev-zero-merge-tests.patch