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Its filename was mm-madvise-use-predicates-for-madvise-madv_dofork.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 ------------------------------------------------------ From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" Subject: mm/madvise: use predicates for madvise(..., MADV_DOFORK) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:05:13 +0100 Make it clear what we're blocking in MADV_DOFORK. Previously we simply disallowed VM_SPECIAL i.e. mappings not managed by core mm, fixed mappings and VMA_IO_BIT. Now the invariant is established that mm-managed mappings may not set VMA_IO_BIT, the VMA_IO_BIT check is redundant. The rest is equivalent to testing for a fixed or non-mm-managed mapping, i.e. a mapping which is not mm-backed, or hugetlb, which is specifically excluded. This was established by commit 0b2758f48f22 ("Require (reasonably) normal mappings for MADV_DOFORK") containing my hands-down favourite call out of all time. Express the same thing using the predicates - only mm-backed mappings may have their copy-on-fork behaviour changed, retaining the eternal exception to all rules, hugetlb. No functional change intended. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20261013-b4-mmap-prepare-vma-flag-sanify-v6-33-1aa3c9b139f9@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Zi Yan Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Liam R. 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Miller Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Matthew Brost Cc: Joshua Hahn Cc: Rakie Kim Cc: Byungchul Park Cc: Gregory Price Cc: Ying Huang Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Chris Li Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Kemeng Shi Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Youngjun Park Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Yuanchu Xie Cc: Wei Xu Cc: Chengming Zhou Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Xu Xin Cc: Ihor Solodrai Cc: Bert Karwatzki --- mm/madvise.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/madvise.c~mm-madvise-use-predicates-for-madvise-madv_dofork +++ a/mm/madvise.c @@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@ static int madvise_vma_behavior(struct m new_flags |= VM_DONTCOPY; break; case MADV_DOFORK: - if (new_flags & VM_SPECIAL) + if (!vma_is_mm_backed(vma) || vma_is_hugetlb(vma)) return -EINVAL; new_flags &= ~VM_DONTCOPY; break; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ljs@kernel.org are mm-vma-fix-expansion-of-vma_mixedmap_bit-vmas.patch mm-do-not-unintentionally-overwrite-atomic-vma-flags.patch mm-vma-avoid-losing-atomic-vma-flags-when-setting-sticky-vma-flags.patch