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Commit 9a12d103 authored by Liam R. Howlett's avatar Liam R. Howlett Committed by Andrew Morton
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mmap: add clarifying comment to vma_merge() code

When tracing through the code in vma_merge(), it was not completely
clear why the error return to a dup_anon_vma() call would not overwrite
a previous attempt to the same function.  This commit adds a comment
specifying why it is safe.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230929183041.2835469-4-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLiam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarJann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAG48ez3iDwFPR=Ed1BfrNuyUJPMK_=StjxhUsCkL6po1s7bONg@mail.gmail.com/


Reviewed-by: default avatarLorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 651acf0c
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