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mm/mmap.c: replace find_vma_prepare() with clearer find_vma_links()
People get confused by find_vma_prepare(), because it doesn't care about what it returns in its output args, when its callers won't be interested. Clarify by passing in end-of-range address too, and returning failure if any existing vma overlaps the new range: instead of returning an ambiguous vma which most callers then must check. find_vma_links() is a clearer name. This does revert 2.6.27's dfe195f ("mm: fix uninitialized variables for find_vma_prepare callers"), but it looks like gcc 4.3.0 was one of those releases too eager to shout about uninitialized variables: only copy_vma() warns with 4.5.1 and 4.7.1, which a BUG on error silences. [hughd@google.com: fix warning, remove BUG()] Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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