[PATCH v3 5/5] tcp: Remove mmap_lock fallback path

From: Suren Baghdasaryan

Date: Sun Aug 02 2026 - 18:00:29 EST


From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Previously, the per-VMA locking could fail in the face of writers
which necessitates a fallback to mmap_lock. The new
lock_vma_under_rcu_wait() will wait for writers instead of failing.

Use the new helper. Wait for writers. Remove the fallback to mmap_lock.

This really is a nice cleanup. It removes the need to pass the lock
state back and forth to find_tcp_vma().

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: syzbot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
net/ipv4/tcp.c | 31 +++++++++----------------------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 455441f1b694..62defe70f3ce 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -2167,27 +2167,18 @@ static void tcp_zc_finalize_rx_tstamp(struct sock *sk,
}

static struct vm_area_struct *find_tcp_vma(struct mm_struct *mm,
- unsigned long address,
- bool *mmap_locked)
+ unsigned long address)
{
- struct vm_area_struct *vma = lock_vma_under_rcu(mm, address);
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma = vma_start_read_unlocked(mm, address);

- if (vma) {
- if (vma->vm_ops != &tcp_vm_ops) {
- vma_end_read(vma);
- return NULL;
- }
- *mmap_locked = false;
- return vma;
- }
+ if (!vma)
+ return NULL;

- mmap_read_lock(mm);
- vma = vma_lookup(mm, address);
- if (!vma || vma->vm_ops != &tcp_vm_ops) {
- mmap_read_unlock(mm);
+ if (vma->vm_ops != &tcp_vm_ops) {
+ vma_end_read(vma);
return NULL;
}
- *mmap_locked = true;
+
return vma;
}

@@ -2208,7 +2199,6 @@ static int tcp_zerocopy_receive(struct sock *sk,
u32 seq = tp->copied_seq;
u32 total_bytes_to_map;
int inq = tcp_inq(sk);
- bool mmap_locked;
int ret;

zc->copybuf_len = 0;
@@ -2233,7 +2223,7 @@ static int tcp_zerocopy_receive(struct sock *sk,
return 0;
}

- vma = find_tcp_vma(current->mm, address, &mmap_locked);
+ vma = find_tcp_vma(current->mm, address);
if (!vma)
return -EINVAL;

@@ -2315,10 +2305,7 @@ static int tcp_zerocopy_receive(struct sock *sk,
zc, total_bytes_to_map);
}
out:
- if (mmap_locked)
- mmap_read_unlock(current->mm);
- else
- vma_end_read(vma);
+ vma_end_read(vma);
/* Try to copy straggler data. */
if (!ret)
copylen = tcp_zc_handle_leftover(zc, sk, skb, &seq, copybuf_len, tss);
--
2.55.0.508.g3f0d502094-goog