linux/fs/proc
Ryan Roberts 9ac09bb9fe mm: consistently use current->mm in mm_get_unmapped_area()
mm_get_unmapped_area() is a wrapper around arch_get_unmapped_area() /
arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(), both of which search current->mm for
some free space.  Neither take an mm_struct - they implicitly operate on
current->mm.

But the wrapper takes an mm_struct and uses it to decide whether to search
bottom up or top down.  All callers pass in current->mm for this, so
everything is working consistently.  But it feels like an accident waiting
to happen; eventually someone will call that function with a different mm,
expecting to find free space in it, but what gets returned is free space
in the current mm.

So let's simplify by removing the parameter and have the wrapper use
current->mm to decide which end to start at.  Now everything is consistent
and self-documenting.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251003155306.2147572-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
History 2025-11-16 17:27:57 -08:00
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array.c Summary of significant series in this pull request: 2025-10-02 18:18:33 -07:00
base.c Patch series in this pull request: 2025-10-02 18:44:54 -07:00
bootconfig.c fs/proc: Skip bootloader comment if no embedded kernel parameters 2024-04-09 23:36:18 +09:00
cmdline.c proc: mark /proc/cmdline as permanent 2023-02-02 22:50:02 -08:00
consoles.c proc: Add nbcon support for /proc/consoles 2024-09-04 15:56:33 +02:00
cpuinfo.c x86/aperfmperf: Replace aperfmperf_get_khz() 2022-04-27 20:22:19 +02:00
devices.c proc: mark more files as permanent 2022-10-03 14:21:45 -07:00
fd.c proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check 2025-06-16 16:21:07 +02:00
fd.h fs: port ->permission() to pass mnt_idmap 2023-01-19 09:24:28 +01:00
generic.c fs/proc: fix uaf in proc_readdir_de() 2025-11-09 21:19:43 -08:00
inode.c mm: consistently use current->mm in mm_get_unmapped_area() 2025-11-16 17:27:57 -08:00
internal.h fs/proc/task_mmu: factor out proc_maps_private fields used by PROCMAP_QUERY 2025-09-13 16:54:48 -07:00
interrupts.c fs/procfs: Switch to irq_get_nr_irqs() 2024-10-16 21:56:59 +02:00
Kconfig virtio-mem: support CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_RAM 2025-01-27 09:39:25 -05:00
kcore.c crash: Use note name macros 2025-02-10 16:56:58 -08:00
kmsg.c printk changes for 6.1 2022-10-10 11:24:19 -07:00
loadavg.c proc: mark more files as permanent 2022-10-03 14:21:45 -07:00
Makefile kbuild: make -Woverride-init warnings more consistent 2024-03-31 11:32:26 +09:00
meminfo.c mm, vmstat: remove the NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP node_stat_item counter 2025-07-19 18:59:47 -07:00
namespaces.c fs/proc/namespaces: make ns_entries const 2025-09-15 14:28:37 +02:00
nommu.c fs: create helper file_user_path() for user displayed mapped file path 2023-10-19 11:03:15 +02:00
page.c mm/hwpoison: decouple hwpoison_filter from mm/memory-failure.c 2025-09-21 14:22:21 -07:00
proc_net.c fs: Add kernel-doc comments to proc_create_net_data_write() 2024-03-26 09:01:18 +01:00
proc_sysctl.c Current exclusion rules for ->d_flags stores are rather unpleasant. 2025-07-28 09:17:57 -07:00
proc_tty.c proc: delete unused <linux/uaccess.h> includes 2022-07-17 17:31:39 -07:00
root.c namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
self.c proc: convert to new timestamp accessors 2023-10-18 14:08:26 +02:00
softirqs.c proc/softirqs: replace seq_printf with seq_put_decimal_ull_width 2024-11-07 07:40:14 -10:00
stat.c fs/procfs: Switch to irq_get_nr_irqs() 2024-10-16 21:56:59 +02:00
task_mmu.c Summary of significant series in this pull request: 2025-10-02 18:18:33 -07:00
task_nommu.c fs/proc/task_mmu: factor out proc_maps_private fields used by PROCMAP_QUERY 2025-09-13 16:54:48 -07:00
thread_self.c proc: convert to new timestamp accessors 2023-10-18 14:08:26 +02:00
uptime.c proc: mark more files as permanent 2022-10-03 14:21:45 -07:00
util.c fs/proc/util.c: include fs/proc/internal.h for name_to_int() 2019-01-04 13:13:45 -08:00
version.c proc: mark more files as permanent 2022-10-03 14:21:45 -07:00
vmcore.c fs/proc/vmcore: a few cleanups for vmcore_add_device_dump() 2025-07-09 22:57:56 -07:00