mm/mmap.c: prev could be retrieved from vma->vm_prev
Currently __vma_unlink_common handles two cases: * has_prev * or not When has_prev is false, it is obvious prev is calculated from vma->vm_prev in __vma_unlink_common. When has_prev is true, the prev is passed through from __vma_unlink_prev in __vma_adjust for non-case 8. And at the beginning next is calculated from vma->vm_next, which implies vma is next->vm_prev. The above statement sounds a little complicated, while to think in another point of view, no matter whether vma and next is swapped, the mmap link list still preserves its property. It is proper to access vma->vm_prev. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191006012636.31521-1-richardw.yang@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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