[PATCH 01/13] mm: introduce vma_flags_can_grow() and vma_can_grow()
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-06-29 19:26:05
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Subsystem:
memory management - core, memory mapping, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Morton, David Hildenbrand, Liam R. Howlett, Lorenzo Stoakes, Linus Torvalds
These test whether the VMA has stack sematics, i.e. is able to grow upwards or downwards depending on the architecture. In order to account for arches which do not support upward-growing stacks, introduce VMA_GROWSUP whose definition depends on the architecture supporting it, and use vma_flags_test_single_mask() in vma_flags_can_grow() to account for this. Update the VMA userland tests to reflect the changes No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> --- include/linux/mm.h | 21 ++++++++++++++++++--- tools/testing/vma/include/dup.h | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 868b2334bff3..cf7df1569052 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h@@ -472,6 +472,7 @@ enum { #define VM_SAO INIT_VM_FLAG(SAO) #elif defined(CONFIG_PARISC) #define VM_GROWSUP INIT_VM_FLAG(GROWSUP) +#define VMA_GROWSUP mk_vma_flags(VMA_GROWSUP_BIT) #elif defined(CONFIG_SPARC64) #define VM_SPARC_ADI INIT_VM_FLAG(SPARC_ADI) #define VM_ARCH_CLEAR INIT_VM_FLAG(ARCH_CLEAR)
@@ -483,6 +484,7 @@ enum { #endif #ifndef VM_GROWSUP #define VM_GROWSUP VM_NONE +#define VMA_GROWSUP EMPTY_VMA_FLAGS #endif #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_MTE #define VM_MTE INIT_VM_FLAG(MTE)
@@ -1563,11 +1565,24 @@ static inline bool vma_is_initial_stack(const struct vm_area_struct *vma) vma->vm_end >= vma->vm_mm->start_stack; } -static inline bool vma_is_temporary_stack(const struct vm_area_struct *vma) +static inline bool vma_flags_can_grow(const vma_flags_t *flags) { - int maybe_stack = vma->vm_flags & (VM_GROWSDOWN | VM_GROWSUP); + if (vma_flags_test_single_mask(flags, VMA_GROWSUP)) + return true; + if (vma_flags_test(flags, VMA_GROWSDOWN_BIT)) + return true; + + return false; +} - if (!maybe_stack) +static inline bool vma_can_grow(const struct vm_area_struct *vma) +{ + return vma_flags_can_grow(&vma->flags); +} + +static inline bool vma_is_temporary_stack(const struct vm_area_struct *vma) +{ + if (!vma_can_grow(vma)) return false; if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_STACK_INCOMPLETE_SETUP) ==
diff --git a/tools/testing/vma/include/dup.h b/tools/testing/vma/include/dup.h
index 5d7d0afd7765..6f5bcd7fbcd8 100644
--- a/tools/testing/vma/include/dup.h
+++ b/tools/testing/vma/include/dup.h@@ -245,8 +245,10 @@ enum { #define VM_STACK INIT_VM_FLAG(STACK) #ifdef CONFIG_STACK_GROWS_UP #define VM_STACK_EARLY INIT_VM_FLAG(STACK_EARLY) +#define VMA_STACK_EARLY mk_vma_flags(VMA_STACK_EARLY_BIT) #else #define VM_STACK_EARLY VM_NONE +#define VMA_STACK_EARLY EMPTY_VMA_FLAGS #endif #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PKEYS #define VM_PKEY_SHIFT ((__force int)VMA_HIGH_ARCH_0_BIT)
@@ -315,6 +317,8 @@ enum { /* Bits set in the VMA until the stack is in its final location */ #define VM_STACK_INCOMPLETE_SETUP (VM_RAND_READ | VM_SEQ_READ | VM_STACK_EARLY) +#define VMA_STACK_INCOMPLETE_SETUP append_vma_flags( \ + VMA_STACK_EARLY, VMA_RAND_READ_BIT, VMA_SEQ_READ_BIT) #define TASK_EXEC_BIT ((current->personality & READ_IMPLIES_EXEC) ? \ VM_EXEC_BIT : VM_READ_BIT)
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