> We currently disallow the installation of lightweight guard regions in VMAs > whose flags intersect VMA_SPECIAL_FLAGS or VMA_HUGETLB_BIT, or > VMA_LOCKED_BIT unless allow_locked is set. > > hugetlb VMAs set VMA_DONTEXPAND_BIT so this was already redundant, > VMA_SPECIAL_FLAGS already sufficed. > > However, now that VMA_IO_BIT is only set if VMA_PFNMAP or VMA_MIXEDMAP_BIT > is set, this check collapses to being the equivalent of > !vma_can_merge(). > > Update is_valid_guard_vma() to reflect this. > > No functional change intended. > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <[email protected]>
Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues. It looks great! -- Sashiko AI review ยท https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260914-b4-mmap-prepare-vma-flag-sanify-v2-0-7d9781ed5...@kernel.org?part=30
