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authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>2018-07-26 16:37:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-07-26 19:38:03 -0700
commit027232da7c7c1c7f04383f93bd798e475dde5285 (patch)
treecff44e09fbd8b37334ae734a06be980ec6c01243 /kernel
parent31c5bda3a656089f01963d290a40ccda181f816e (diff)
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 <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
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;
}