From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from wout3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([64.147.123.19]:59903 "EHLO wout3-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726461AbeG1JZS (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jul 2018 05:25:18 -0400 Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm: introduce vma_init()" failed to apply to 4.17-stable tree To: kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, aarcange@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dvyukov@google.com, oleg@redhat.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: From: Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 09:59:37 +0200 Message-ID: <153276477717153@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The patch below does not apply to the 4.17-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to . thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >>From 027232da7c7c1c7f04383f93bd798e475dde5285 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:37:25 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: introduce vma_init() Not all VMAs allocated with vm_area_alloc(). Some of them allocated on stack or in data segment. The new helper can be use to initialize VMA properly regardless where it was allocated. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180724121139.62570-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index d3a3842316b8..31540f166987 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -452,6 +452,12 @@ struct vm_operations_struct { unsigned long addr); }; +static inline void vma_init(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct mm_struct *mm) +{ + vma->vm_mm = mm; + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vma->anon_vma_chain); +} + struct mmu_gather; struct inode; diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index a191c05e757d..1b27babc4c78 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -312,10 +312,8 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm) { struct vm_area_struct *vma = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); - if (vma) { - vma->vm_mm = mm; - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vma->anon_vma_chain); - } + if (vma) + vma_init(vma, mm); return vma; }