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Carlos Llamas
072010abc3
It is unsafe to use alloc->vma outside of the mmap_sem. Instead, add a new boolean alloc->mapped to save the vma state (mapped or unmmaped) and use this as a replacement for alloc->vma to validate several paths. Using the alloc->vma caused several performance and security issues in the past. Now that it has been replaced with either vm_lookup() or the alloc->mapped state, we can finally remove it. Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241210143114.661252-6-cmllamas@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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