From 09a9f1d27892255cfb9c91203f19476765e2d8d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michel Lespinasse Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:26:23 -0700 Subject: Revert "mm: introduce VM_POPULATE flag to better deal with racy userspace programs" This reverts commit 186930500985 ("mm: introduce VM_POPULATE flag to better deal with racy userspace programs"). VM_POPULATE only has any effect when userspace plays racy games with vmas by trying to unmap and remap memory regions that mmap or mlock are operating on. Also, the only effect of VM_POPULATE when userspace plays such games is that it avoids populating new memory regions that get remapped into the address range that was being operated on by the original mmap or mlock calls. Let's remove VM_POPULATE as there isn't any strong argument to mandate a new vm_flag. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/mmap.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/mmap.c') diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 2664a47cec93..6466699b16cb 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -1306,7 +1306,9 @@ unsigned long do_mmap_pgoff(struct file *file, unsigned long addr, } addr = mmap_region(file, addr, len, vm_flags, pgoff); - if (!IS_ERR_VALUE(addr) && (vm_flags & VM_POPULATE)) + if (!IS_ERR_VALUE(addr) && + ((vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) || + (flags & (MAP_POPULATE | MAP_NONBLOCK)) == MAP_POPULATE)) *populate = len; return addr; } -- cgit v1.2.3