On 2/13/25 19:17, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > There is no reason to disallow guard regions in file-backed mappings - > readahead and fault-around both function correctly in the presence of PTE > markers, equally other operations relating to memory-mapped files function > correctly. > > Additionally, read-only mappings if introducing guard-regions, only > restrict the mapping further, which means there is no violation of any > access rights by permitting this to be so. > > Removing this restriction allows for read-only mapped files (such as > executable files) correctly which would otherwise not be permitted. > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> > --- > mm/madvise.c | 8 +------- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c > index 6ecead476a80..e01e93e179a8 100644 > --- a/mm/madvise.c > +++ b/mm/madvise.c > @@ -1051,13 +1051,7 @@ static bool is_valid_guard_vma(struct vm_area_struct > *vma, bool allow_locked) > if (!allow_locked) > disallowed |= VM_LOCKED; > > - if (!vma_is_anonymous(vma)) > - return false; > - > - if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_MAYWRITE | disallowed)) != VM_MAYWRITE) > - return false; > - > - return true; > + return !(vma->vm_flags & disallowed); > } > > static bool is_guard_pte_marker(pte_t ptent)
