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/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
jaseg · Jul 27, 2018 · 027232d · 027232d
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diff --git 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
@@ -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;
 }