Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Alex Thorlton <> | Subject | [PATCH 3/3] exec: kill the unnecessary mm->def_flags setting in load_elf_binary() | Date | Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:54:06 -0600 |
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load_elf_binary() sets current->mm->def_flags = def_flags and def_flags is always zero. Not only this looks strange, this is unnecessary because mm_init() has already set ->def_flags = 0.
Signed-off-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
--- fs/binfmt_elf.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c index 67be295..d09bd9c 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -579,7 +579,6 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm) unsigned long start_code, end_code, start_data, end_data; unsigned long reloc_func_desc __maybe_unused = 0; int executable_stack = EXSTACK_DEFAULT; - unsigned long def_flags = 0; struct pt_regs *regs = current_pt_regs(); struct { struct elfhdr elf_ex; @@ -719,9 +718,6 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm) if (retval) goto out_free_dentry; - /* OK, This is the point of no return */ - current->mm->def_flags = def_flags; - /* Do this immediately, since STACK_TOP as used in setup_arg_pages may depend on the personality. */ SET_PERSONALITY(loc->elf_ex); -- 1.7.12.4
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