kernel/fork: convert vma assignment to a memcpy

Patch series "introduce vm_flags modifier functions", v4.

This patchset was originally published as a part of per-VMA locking [1]
and was split after suggestion that it's viable on its own and to
facilitate the review process.  It is now a preprequisite for the next
version of per-VMA lock patchset, which reuses vm_flags modifier functions
to lock the VMA when vm_flags are being updated.

VMA vm_flags modifications are usually done under exclusive mmap_lock
protection because this attrubute affects other decisions like VMA merging
or splitting and races should be prevented.  Introduce vm_flags modifier
functions to enforce correct locking.

This patch (of 7):

Convert vma assignment in vm_area_dup() to a memcpy() to prevent compiler
errors when we add a const modifier to vma->vm_flags.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Arjun Roy <[email protected]>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Thelen <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Cc: Laurent Dufour <[email protected]>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <[email protected]>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Oskolkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Xu <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Punit Agrawal <[email protected]>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Cc: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <[email protected]>
Cc: Song Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: Sebastian Reichel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 441dcec60aae7135ca7b9a7e7c84615a580f2ac2..9260f975b8f448dad0aabd0752480c4d7e3644e8 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_dup(struct vm_area_struct *orig)
                 * orig->shared.rb may be modified concurrently, but the clone
                 * will be reinitialized.
                 */
-               *new = data_race(*orig);
+               data_race(memcpy(new, orig, sizeof(*new)));
                INIT_LIST_HEAD(&new->anon_vma_chain);
                dup_anon_vma_name(orig, new);
        }