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Subject[PATCH v2 01/22] mm: Add vma_lookup(), update find_vma_intersection() comments
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Many places in the kernel use find_vma() to get a vma and then check the
start address of the vma to ensure the next vma was not returned.

Other places use the find_vma_intersection() call with add, addr + 1 as
the range; looking for just the vma at a specific address.

The third use of find_vma() is by developers who do not know that the
function starts searching at the provided address upwards for the next
vma. This results in a bug that is often overlooked for a long time.

Adding the new vma_lookup() function will allow for cleaner code by
removing the find_vma() calls which check limits, making
find_vma_intersection() calls of a single address to be shorter, and
potentially reduce the incorrect uses of find_vma().

Also change find_vma_intersection() comments and declaration to be of
the correct length and add kernel documentation style comment.

Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 25b9041f9925..d5c443993ebe 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2678,17 +2678,45 @@ extern struct vm_area_struct * find_vma(struct mm_struct * mm, unsigned long add
extern struct vm_area_struct * find_vma_prev(struct mm_struct * mm, unsigned long addr,
struct vm_area_struct **pprev);

-/* Look up the first VMA which intersects the interval start_addr..end_addr-1,
- NULL if none. Assume start_addr < end_addr. */
-static inline struct vm_area_struct * find_vma_intersection(struct mm_struct * mm, unsigned long start_addr, unsigned long end_addr)
+/**
+ * find_vma_intersection() - Look up the first VMA which intersects the interval
+ * @mm: The process address space.
+ * @start_addr: The inclusive start user address.
+ * @end_addr: The exclusive end user address.
+ *
+ * Returns: The first VMA within the provided range, %NULL otherwise. Assumes
+ * start_addr < end_addr.
+ */
+static inline
+struct vm_area_struct *find_vma_intersection(struct mm_struct *mm,
+ unsigned long start_addr,
+ unsigned long end_addr)
{
- struct vm_area_struct * vma = find_vma(mm,start_addr);
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma = find_vma(mm, start_addr);

if (vma && end_addr <= vma->vm_start)
vma = NULL;
return vma;
}

+/**
+ * vma_lookup() - Find a VMA at a specific address
+ * @mm: The process address space.
+ * @addr: The user address.
+ *
+ * Return: The vm_area_struct at the given address, %NULL otherwise.
+ */
+static inline
+struct vm_area_struct *vma_lookup(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
+{
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma = find_vma(mm, addr);
+
+ if (vma && addr < vma->vm_start)
+ vma = NULL;
+
+ return vma;
+}
+
static inline unsigned long vm_start_gap(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
unsigned long vm_start = vma->vm_start;
--
2.30.2
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