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authorDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>2021-04-22 12:08:20 +0200
committerDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>2021-09-03 18:42:01 +0200
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mm: remove VM_DENYWRITE
All in-tree users of MAP_DENYWRITE are gone. MAP_DENYWRITE cannot be set from user space, so all users are gone; let's remove it. Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c3
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 1cb1f9b8392e..19767bb9933c 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -8307,8 +8307,6 @@ static void perf_event_mmap_event(struct perf_mmap_event *mmap_event)
else
flags = MAP_PRIVATE;
- if (vma->vm_flags & VM_DENYWRITE)
- flags |= MAP_DENYWRITE;
if (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED)
flags |= MAP_LOCKED;
if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 7677f897ecb6..feef1057081d 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -570,12 +570,9 @@ static __latent_entropy int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm,
tmp->vm_flags &= ~(VM_LOCKED | VM_LOCKONFAULT);
file = tmp->vm_file;
if (file) {
- struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
get_file(file);
- if (tmp->vm_flags & VM_DENYWRITE)
- put_write_access(inode);
i_mmap_lock_write(mapping);
if (tmp->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)
mapping_allow_writable(mapping);