From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:22:38 +0000 (+0200) Subject: uprobes: Remove insert_vm_struct()->uprobe_mmap() X-Git-Tag: next-20120731~20^2^2~5 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=89133786f9408d53361874a8c784fff150fc7f7c;p=karo-tx-linux.git uprobes: Remove insert_vm_struct()->uprobe_mmap() Remove insert_vm_struct()->uprobe_mmap(). It is not needed, nobody except arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c uses insert_vm_struct(vma) with vma->vm_file != NULL. And it is wrong. Again, get_user_pages() can not succeed before vma_link(vma) makes is visible to find_vma(). And even if this worked, we must not insert the new bp before this mapping is visible to vma_prio_tree_foreach() for uprobe_unregister(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Anton Arapov Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120729182238.GA20349@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index e5a46149d1f1..4fe2697339ed 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -2345,9 +2345,6 @@ int insert_vm_struct(struct mm_struct * mm, struct vm_area_struct * vma) security_vm_enough_memory_mm(mm, vma_pages(vma))) return -ENOMEM; - if (vma->vm_file && uprobe_mmap(vma)) - return -EINVAL; - vma_link(mm, vma, prev, rb_link, rb_parent); return 0; }