[PATCH 24/39] mm/vma: enforce that only kernel-owned mappings may set VMA_IO_BIT
From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-09-08 20:13:53
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memory management, memory mapping, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Morton, Liam R. Howlett, Lorenzo Stoakes, Linus Torvalds
It makes no sense for a mapping whose contents the kernel does not own to specify that the range is MMIO. Prior to this patch, all in-tree drivers which did so have been updated such that they are marked as kernel-owned. The check WARNs and fails the mmap for any out-of-tree driver that still sets VMA_IO_BIT without a kernel mapping. No functional change intended for in-tree code. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org> --- mm/vma.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/vma.c b/mm/vma.c
index cb0c4c625756..5996757d5aaf 100644
--- a/mm/vma.c
+++ b/mm/vma.c@@ -2772,6 +2772,12 @@ static int mmap_validate_vma_flags(const vma_flags_t *flags) return -EINVAL; #endif + if (!vma_flags_test_any(flags, VMA_PFNMAP_BIT, VMA_MIXEDMAP_BIT)) { + /* Only kernel-owned mappings may set VMA_IO_BIT. */ + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(vma_flags_test(flags, VMA_IO_BIT))) + return -EINVAL; + } + return 0; }
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