[PATCH v2 0/3] special_mapping_fault() is broken

[Oleg Nesterov]

Hello,

special_mapping_fault() is absolutely broken. It seems it was always
wrong, but this didn't matter until vdso/vvar started to use more than
one page.

The patches are the same, just 1/3 was re-diffed on top of the recent
6b7339f4c31ad "mm: avoid setting up anonymous pages into file mapping"
from Kirill.

And after this change vma_is_anonymous() becomes really trivial, it
simply checks vm_ops == NULL. However, I do think the helper makes
sense. There are a lot of ->vm_ops != NULL checks, the helper makes
the caller's code more understandable (self-documented) and this is
more grep-friendly.

Oleg.

 include/linux/mm.h |    5 +++++
 mm/memory.c        |    8 ++++----
 mm/mmap.c          |   14 +++-----------
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

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