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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:47:34 +0000
From: "Kalyazin, Nikita" <kalyazin@...zon.co.uk>
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Subject: [PATCH v10 04/15] mm/gup: drop local variable in
 gup_fast_folio_allowed

From: Nikita Kalyazin <kalyazin@...zon.com>

Move the check for pinning closer to where the result is used.
No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Nikita Kalyazin <kalyazin@...zon.com>
---
 mm/gup.c | 19 ++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 9cad53acbc99..e72dacce3e34 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -2737,18 +2737,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages_unlocked);
  */
 static bool gup_fast_folio_allowed(struct folio *folio, unsigned int flags)
 {
-	bool reject_file_backed = false;
 	struct address_space *mapping;
 	unsigned long mapping_flags;
 
-	/*
-	 * If we aren't pinning then no problematic write can occur. A long term
-	 * pin is the most egregious case so this is the one we disallow.
-	 */
-	if ((flags & (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_LONGTERM | FOLL_WRITE)) ==
-	    (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_LONGTERM | FOLL_WRITE))
-		reject_file_backed = true;
-
 	/* We hold a folio reference, so we can safely access folio fields. */
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(folio_test_slab(folio)))
 		return false;
@@ -2793,8 +2784,14 @@ static bool gup_fast_folio_allowed(struct folio *folio, unsigned int flags)
 	 */
 	if (secretmem_mapping(mapping))
 		return false;
-	/* The only remaining allowed file system is shmem. */
-	return !reject_file_backed || shmem_mapping(mapping);
+
+	/*
+	 * If we aren't pinning then no problematic write can occur. A long term
+	 * pin is the most egregious case so this is the one we disallow.
+	 * Also check the only remaining allowed file system - shmem.
+	 */
+	return (flags & (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_LONGTERM | FOLL_WRITE)) !=
+	    (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_LONGTERM | FOLL_WRITE) || shmem_mapping(mapping);
 }
 
 static void __maybe_unused gup_fast_undo_dev_pagemap(int *nr, int nr_start,
-- 
2.50.1


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