mmap: add clarifying comment to vma_merge() code
authorLiam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Fri, 29 Sep 2023 18:30:41 +0000 (14:30 -0400)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 18 Oct 2023 21:34:15 +0000 (14:34 -0700)
commit9a12d103f7d2d524f5e3d4358b9a9c03e4a9f1d2
tree0bfee90c804169b6fb5078a4f6c20ba09931f105
parent651acf0ceb72903ff16fe31e52c1c448a0ca880c
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: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAG48ez3iDwFPR=Ed1BfrNuyUJPMK_=StjxhUsCkL6po1s7bONg@mail.gmail.com/
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/mmap.c