[merged mm-stable] mm-introduce-vma_flags_can_grow-and-vma_can_grow.patch removed from -mm tree

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm: introduce vma_flags_can_grow() and vma_can_grow()
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-introduce-vma_flags_can_grow-and-vma_can_grow.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
Subject: mm: introduce vma_flags_can_grow() and vma_can_grow()
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:44:58 +0100

Patch series "mm: convert more vm_flags_t users to vma_flags_t", v2.

This series makes further progress in converting usage of the deprecated
vm_flags_t type to its replacement, vma_flags_t.

It focuses on mm, though updates some users of mm APIs also.

It updates:

* The core do_mmap() code path for VMA mapping.
* Unmapped area logic.
* The usage of mm->def_vma_flags.
* VMA page protection bit logic.
* General usage of VMA flags in core mm code, mlock, mprotect, mremap.


This patch (of 13):

These test whether the VMA has stack semantics, i.e.  is able to grow
upwards or downwards depending on the architecture.

In order to account for arches which do not support upward-growing stacks,
introduce VMA_GROWSUP whose definition depends on the architecture
supporting it, and use vma_flags_test_single_mask() in
vma_flags_can_grow() to account for this.

No functional change intended.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <[email protected]>
Cc: Baolin Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Barry Song <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Airlie <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Dev Jain <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Cc: Lance Yang <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Cc: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
Cc: Nico Pache <[email protected]>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <[email protected]>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Cc: Zi Yan <[email protected]>
Cc: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 include/linux/mm.h |   21 ++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/mm.h~mm-introduce-vma_flags_can_grow-and-vma_can_grow
+++ a/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -474,6 +474,7 @@ enum {
 #define VM_SAO		INIT_VM_FLAG(SAO)
 #elif defined(CONFIG_PARISC)
 #define VM_GROWSUP	INIT_VM_FLAG(GROWSUP)
+#define VMA_GROWSUP	mk_vma_flags(VMA_GROWSUP_BIT)
 #elif defined(CONFIG_SPARC64)
 #define VM_SPARC_ADI	INIT_VM_FLAG(SPARC_ADI)
 #define VM_ARCH_CLEAR	INIT_VM_FLAG(ARCH_CLEAR)
@@ -485,6 +486,7 @@ enum {
 #endif
 #ifndef VM_GROWSUP
 #define VM_GROWSUP	VM_NONE
+#define VMA_GROWSUP	EMPTY_VMA_FLAGS
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_MTE
 #define VM_MTE		INIT_VM_FLAG(MTE)
@@ -1578,11 +1580,24 @@ static inline bool vma_is_initial_stack(
 		vma->vm_end >= vma->vm_mm->start_stack;
 }
 
-static inline bool vma_is_temporary_stack(const struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+static inline bool vma_flags_can_grow(const vma_flags_t *flags)
 {
-	int maybe_stack = vma->vm_flags & (VM_GROWSDOWN | VM_GROWSUP);
+	if (vma_flags_test_single_mask(flags, VMA_GROWSUP))
+		return true;
+	if (vma_flags_test(flags, VMA_GROWSDOWN_BIT))
+		return true;
 
-	if (!maybe_stack)
+	return false;
+}
+
+static inline bool vma_can_grow(const struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	return vma_flags_can_grow(&vma->flags);
+}
+
+static inline bool vma_is_temporary_stack(const struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	if (!vma_can_grow(vma))
 		return false;
 
 	if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_STACK_INCOMPLETE_SETUP) ==
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are

x86-mm-pat-acquire-init_mm-write-lock-on-collapse-to-avoid-uaf.patch
x86-mm-pat-acquire-init_mm-read-lock-on-attribute-change-to-avoid-uaf.patch
x86-mm-pat-allocate-split-page-tables-as-kernel-page-tables.patch
mm-vma-introduce-vma-anon-page-offset-field-and-add-helpers.patch
mm-provide-vma_is_cow_mapping-and-remove-is_cow_mapping.patch
mm-introduce-linear_anon_page_index.patch
mm-abstract-vma_address-and-introduce-vma_anon_address.patch
mm-update-print_bad_page_map-to-show-anon-index-if-appropriate.patch
mm-introduce-and-use-vma_filebacked_address.patch
mm-vma-fix-self-merge-check-in-copy_vma.patch
tools-testing-vma-add-tests-for-copy_vma-self-merge.patch
mm-propagate-vma-anonymous-page-offset-on-map-remap-split-merge.patch
mm-rmap-track-whether-the-page-vma-mapped-pgoff-is-anonymous.patch
mm-clean-up-vma_address_end.patch
mm-huge_memory-update-remove_migration_pmd-to-accept-a-folio.patch
mm-migrate-calculate-large-folio-page-index-using-pfn.patch
mm-rmap-use-anon-pgoff-to-track-map_private-file-backed-anon-folios.patch
tools-testing-vma-expand-vma-merge-tests-to-assert-anon-pgoff.patch
tools-testing-selftests-mm-test-anonymous-page-offset-merge-behaviour.patch
mm-vma-only-permit-map_private-dev-zero-to-be-mapped-anonymous.patch
mm-vma-make-map_private-mapped-dev-zero-mappings-truly-anonymous.patch
tools-testing-vma-add-test-to-assert-map_private-dev-zero-is-anon.patch
tools-testing-selftests-mm-add-map_private-dev-zero-merge-tests.patch
mm-add-some-missing-includes-to-mm-local-headers.patch