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mm: add atomic VMA flags and set VM_MAYBE_GUARD as such
authorLorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:17:44 +0000 (10:17 +0000)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:43:58 +0000 (13:43 -0800)
commit568822502383acd57d7cc1c72ee43932c45a9524
treec78d1fa6e4eeaaa3a06194f9a7c57afce71ffe22
parent5dba5cc2e0ffa76f2f6c8922a04469dc9602c396
mm: add atomic VMA flags and set VM_MAYBE_GUARD as such

This patch adds the ability to atomically set VMA flags with only the mmap
read/VMA read lock held.

As this could be hugely problematic for VMA flags in general given that
all other accesses are non-atomic and serialised by the mmap/VMA locks, we
implement this with a strict allow-list - that is, only designated flags
are allowed to do this.

We make VM_MAYBE_GUARD one of these flags.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/97e57abed09f2663077ed7a36fb8206e243171a9.1763460113.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mm.h