mm: always lock new vma before inserting into vma tree

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While it's not strictly necessary to lock a newly created vma before
adding it into the vma tree (as long as no further changes are performed
to it), it seems like a good policy to lock it and prevent accidental
changes after it becomes visible to the page faults. Lock the vma before
adding it into the vma tree.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix reject fixing in vma_link(), per Jann]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230804152724.3090321-6-surenb@google.com
Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Suren Baghdasaryan 2023-08-04 08:27:23 -07:00 • committed by Andrew Morton

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