* Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com> [2012-07-08 22:30:11]:

> Kill 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 <o...@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <sri...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> ---
>  mm/mmap.c |    3 ---
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
> index e5a4614..4fe2697 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;
>  }
> -- 
> 1.5.5.1
> 

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