Re: [PATCH] mm: correct type for vmalloc vm_flags fields

[Harry Yoo]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 12:49:06PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> Several functions refer to the unfortunately named 'vm_flags' field when
> referencing vmalloc flags, which happens to be the precise same name used
> for VMA flags.
> 
> As a result these were erroneously changed to use the vm_flags_t type
> (which currently is a typedef equivalent to unsigned long).
> 
> Currently this has no impact, but in future when vm_flags_t changes this
> will result in issues, so change the type to unsigned long to account for
> this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aIgSpAnU8EaIcqd9@hyeyoo/
> ---

I see one more thing in patch 3 of the series:

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 8fcf59ba39db..248d96349fd0 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ void mark_rodata_ro(void)

 static void __init declare_vma(struct vm_struct *vma,
 			       void *va_start, void *va_end,
-			       unsigned long vm_flags)
+			       vm_flags_t vm_flags)
 {
 	phys_addr_t pa_start = __pa_symbol(va_start);
 	unsigned long size = va_end - va_start;


With that, all looks good.

"struct vm_struct *vma" makes it even more confusing by the way...

-- 
Cheers,
Harry / Hyeonggon

>  mm/execmem.c  | 8 ++++----
>  mm/internal.h | 2 +-
>  mm/nommu.c    | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)