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Commit 47b390d2 authored by Wei Yang's avatar Wei Yang Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/rmap.c: don't reuse anon_vma if we just want a copy

Before commit 7a3ef208 ("mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma
hierarchy"), anon_vma_clone() doesn't change dst->anon_vma.  While after
this commit, anon_vma_clone() will try to reuse an exist one on forking.

But this commit go a little bit further for the case not forking.
anon_vma_clone() is called from __vma_split(), __split_vma(), copy_vma()
and anon_vma_fork().  For the first three places, the purpose here is
get a copy of src and we don't expect to touch dst->anon_vma even it is
NULL.

While after that commit, it is possible to reuse an anon_vma when
dst->anon_vma is NULL.  This is not we intend to have.

This patch stops reuse of anon_vma for non-fork cases.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191011072256.16275-1-richardw.yang@linux.intel.com


Fixes: 7a3ef208 ("mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy")
Signed-off-by: default avatarWei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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