mm: introduce vma_init()

Not all VMAs allocated with vm_area_alloc().  Some of them allocated on
stack or in data segment.

The new helper can be use to initialize VMA properly regardless where it
was allocated.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180724121139.62570-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

include/linux/mm.h

@@ -452,6 +452,12 @@ struct vm_operations_struct {
 					  unsigned long addr);
 };
 
+static inline void vma_init(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+	vma->vm_mm = mm;
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vma->anon_vma_chain);
+}
+
 struct mmu_gather;
 struct inode;
 

kernel/fork.c

@@ -312,10 +312,8 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
 
-	if (vma) {
-		vma->vm_mm = mm;
-		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vma->anon_vma_chain);
-	}
+	if (vma)
+		vma_init(vma, mm);
 	return vma;
 }