[PATCH 20/30] mm/vma: introduce vma_assert_can_modify()
Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:23:31 +0100
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vma_assert_write_locked() and vma_assert_attached() are useful for their own purposes, however VMA code absolutely does allow the modification of non-write locked VMAs if they are at that point detached (i.e. unreachable from anywhere). It's therefore useful to be able to assert that a VMA is either detached (modification doesn't matter) or write locked (you're explicitly locked for modification). Therefore introduce vma_assert_can_modify() for this purpose. While we're here, make vma_is_attached() available generally - if !CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCKS, then there's no sense in which a VMA is detached (vma_mark_detached() is a noop), so have this default to true in this case. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]> --- include/linux/mmap_lock.h | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/mmap_lock.h b/include/linux/mmap_lock.h index 04b8f61ece5d..d513286d8160 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmap_lock.h +++ b/include/linux/mmap_lock.h @@ -506,6 +506,8 @@ static inline __must_check int vma_start_write_killable(struct vm_area_struct *vma) { return 0; } static inline void vma_assert_write_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma) { mmap_assert_write_locked(vma->vm_mm); } +static inline bool vma_is_attached(struct vm_area_struct *vma) + { return true; } static inline void vma_assert_attached(struct vm_area_struct *vma) {} static inline void vma_assert_detached(struct vm_area_struct *vma) {} static inline void vma_mark_attached(struct vm_area_struct *vma) {} @@ -530,6 +532,12 @@ static inline void vma_assert_stabilised(struct vm_area_struct *vma) #endif /* CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK */ +static inline void vma_assert_can_modify(struct vm_area_struct *vma) +{ + if (vma_is_attached(vma)) + vma_assert_write_locked(vma); +} + static inline void mmap_write_lock(struct mm_struct *mm) { __mmap_lock_trace_start_locking(mm, true); -- 2.54.0