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| author | Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> | 2020-10-15 20:13:00 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-10-16 11:11:22 -0700 |
| commit | 4d45e75a9955ade5c2f49bd96fc4173b2cec9a72 (patch) | |
| tree | 71b16b0e22ee630e2956a3285990fb49df84685e /fs/proc | |
| parent | 7f3bfab52cab96c510fd60dd757a32db7bc52d3c (diff) | |
mm: remove the now-unnecessary mmget_still_valid() hack
The preceding patches have ensured that core dumping properly takes the
mmap_lock. Thanks to that, we can now remove mmget_still_valid() and all
its users.
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827114932.3572699-8-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c index 846d43df3fdf..217aa2705d5d 100644 --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c @@ -1244,24 +1244,6 @@ static ssize_t clear_refs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, count = -EINTR; goto out_mm; } - /* - * Avoid to modify vma->vm_flags - * without locked ops while the - * coredump reads the vm_flags. - */ - if (!mmget_still_valid(mm)) { - /* - * Silently return "count" - * like if get_task_mm() - * failed. FIXME: should this - * function have returned - * -ESRCH if get_task_mm() - * failed like if - * get_proc_task() fails? - */ - mmap_write_unlock(mm); - goto out_mm; - } for (vma = mm->mmap; vma; vma = vma->vm_next) { vma->vm_flags &= ~VM_SOFTDIRTY; vma_set_page_prot(vma); |