[PATCH] mm: correct type for vmalloc vm_flags fields

From: Lorenzo Stoakes
Date: Tue Jul 29 2025 - 07:50:07 EST


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

diff --git a/mm/execmem.c b/mm/execmem.c
index 627e6cf64f4f..2b683e7d864d 100644
--- a/mm/execmem.c
+++ b/mm/execmem.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ static struct execmem_info default_execmem_info __ro_after_init;

#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
static void *execmem_vmalloc(struct execmem_range *range, size_t size,
- pgprot_t pgprot, vm_flags_t vm_flags)
+ pgprot_t pgprot, unsigned long vm_flags)
{
bool kasan = range->flags & EXECMEM_KASAN_SHADOW;
gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN;
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ struct vm_struct *execmem_vmap(size_t size)
}
#else
static void *execmem_vmalloc(struct execmem_range *range, size_t size,
- pgprot_t pgprot, vm_flags_t vm_flags)
+ pgprot_t pgprot, unsigned long vm_flags)
{
return vmalloc(size);
}
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ static void *__execmem_cache_alloc(struct execmem_range *range, size_t size)

static int execmem_cache_populate(struct execmem_range *range, size_t size)
{
- vm_flags_t vm_flags = VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP;
+ unsigned long vm_flags = VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP;
struct vm_struct *vm;
size_t alloc_size;
int err = -ENOMEM;
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ void *execmem_alloc(enum execmem_type type, size_t size)
{
struct execmem_range *range = &execmem_info->ranges[type];
bool use_cache = range->flags & EXECMEM_ROX_CACHE;
- vm_flags_t vm_flags = VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS;
+ unsigned long vm_flags = VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS;
pgprot_t pgprot = range->pgprot;
void *p;

diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 28d2d5b051df..142d9302c2ae 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -1391,7 +1391,7 @@ int migrate_device_coherent_folio(struct folio *folio);

struct vm_struct *__get_vm_area_node(unsigned long size,
unsigned long align, unsigned long shift,
- vm_flags_t vm_flags, unsigned long start,
+ unsigned long vm_flags, unsigned long start,
unsigned long end, int node, gfp_t gfp_mask,
const void *caller);

diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 87e1acab0d64..07504d666d6a 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ void *vrealloc_noprof(const void *p, size_t size, gfp_t flags)

void *__vmalloc_node_range_noprof(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
unsigned long start, unsigned long end, gfp_t gfp_mask,
- pgprot_t prot, vm_flags_t vm_flags, int node,
+ pgprot_t prot, unsigned long vm_flags, int node,
const void *caller)
{
return __vmalloc_noprof(size, gfp_mask);
--
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