[to-be-updated] mm-vmalloc-acquire-init_mm-lock-on-huge-vmap-to-avoid-ptdump-uaf-fix.patch removed from -mm tree

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

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm-vmalloc-acquire-init_mm-lock-on-huge-vmap-to-avoid-ptdump-uaf-fix
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-vmalloc-acquire-init_mm-lock-on-huge-vmap-to-avoid-ptdump-uaf-fix.patch

This patch was dropped because an updated version will be issued

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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: mm-vmalloc-acquire-init_mm-lock-on-huge-vmap-to-avoid-ptdump-uaf-fix
Date: Wed Jul 15 12:12:32 PM PDT 2026

update comment, per Kiryl

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/vmalloc.c |    9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/vmalloc.c~mm-vmalloc-acquire-init_mm-lock-on-huge-vmap-to-avoid-ptdump-uaf-fix
+++ a/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -163,12 +163,11 @@ static int vmap_try_huge_pmd(pmd_t *pmd,
 		return pmd_set_huge(pmd, phys_addr, prot);
 
 	/*
-	 * Kernel page table walkers either walk ranges they own exclusively or
-	 * hold the mmap write lock on init_mm (ptdump being the motivating
-	 * case).
+	 * Acquire the mmap read lock to exclude ptdump, which walks kernel
+	 * page tables it does not own under the mmap write lock.
 	 *
-	 * Therefore, acquire the mmap read lock to prevent use-after-free when
-	 * freeing page tables.
+	 * Concurrent read lock holders are safe: each exclusively owns the
+	 * range it operates on and cannot reach this page table.
 	 */
 #ifndef CONFIG_ARM64
 	scoped_cond_guard(mmap_read_lock_try, return 0, &init_mm)
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@linux-foundation.org are

mm-mincore-use-walk_page_range_vma-in-do_mincore-fix.patch
csky-implement-flush_cache_vmap-in-c.patch
mm-annotate-data-race-in-cpu_needs_drain-fix.patch
mm-zsmalloc-encode-class-index-in-obj-value-for-lockless-class-lookup-fix.patch
mm-zsmalloc-drop-pool-lock-from-zs_free-on-64-bit-systems-fix.patch
mm-zsmalloc-drop-pool-lock-from-zs_free-on-64-bit-systems-fix-fix.patch
mm-rmap-use-huge_ptep_get-in-try_to_migrate_one-checkpatch-fixes.patch
mm-mprotect-use-huge_ptep_get-for-hugetlb-fix.patch
mm-drop-stale-folio_ref_count==1-check-in-do_swap_page-reuse-logic-fix.patch
alloc_tag-add-ioctl-to-proc-allocinfo-fix.patch
drivers-media-v4l2-core-v4l2-vp9c-reduce-inlining.patch