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mm: reject vmap with VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS 

Patch series "cleanup vfree and vunmap".

This little series untangles the vfree and vunmap code path a bit.


This patch (of 10):

VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS is just for use with vmalloc as it is tied to freeing
the underlying pages.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230121071051.1143058-1-hch@lst.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230121071051.1143058-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig 2023-01-21 08:10:42 +01:00 committed by Andrew Morton
parent cfccd2e63e
commit 37f3605e5e
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@ -2868,6 +2868,9 @@ void *vmap(struct page **pages, unsigned int count,
might_sleep();
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(flags & VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS))
return NULL;
/*
* Your top guard is someone else's bottom guard. Not having a top
* guard compromises someone else's mappings too.