On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 4:22 PM Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 15:35:48 -0800 Suren Baghdasaryan <sur...@google.com> > wrote: > > > Convert vma assignment in vm_area_dup() to a memcpy() to prevent compiler > > errors when we add a const modifier to vma->vm_flags. > > > > ... > > > > --- a/kernel/fork.c > > +++ b/kernel/fork.c > > @@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_dup(struct > > vm_area_struct *orig) > > * orig->shared.rb may be modified concurrently, but the clone > > * will be reinitialized. > > */ > > - *new = data_race(*orig); > > + memcpy(new, orig, sizeof(*new)); > > The data_race() removal is unchangelogged?
True. I'll add a note in the changelog about that. Ideally I would like to preserve it but I could not find a way to do that. > > > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&new->anon_vma_chain); > > dup_anon_vma_name(orig, new); > > } >
