Those pointers were initialized before call to _install_special_mapping
after the commit f7b6eb3fa072 ("x86: Set context.vdso before installing
the mapping"). This is not required anymore as special mappings have
their vma name and don't use arch_vma_name() after commit a62c34bd2a8a
("x86, mm: Improve _install_special_mapping and fix x86 vdso naming").
So, this way to init looks less entangled.
I even belive, we can remove null initializers:
- on failure load_elf_binary() will not start a new thread;
- arch_prctl will have the same pointers as before syscall.
Cc: 0x7f454...@gmail.com
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcu...@openvz.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
Cc: o...@redhat.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijls...@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com>
Cc: linux...@kvack.org
Cc: x...@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dsafo...@virtuozzo.com>
---
arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c | 10 +++-------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c
index 23c881caabd1..e739002427ed 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c
@@ -161,8 +161,6 @@ static int map_vdso(const struct vdso_image *image,
unsigned long addr)
}
text_start = addr - image->sym_vvar_start;
- current->mm->context.vdso = (void __user *)text_start;
- current->mm->context.vdso_image = image;
/*
* MAYWRITE to allow gdb to COW and set breakpoints
@@ -189,14 +187,12 @@ static int map_vdso(const struct vdso_image *image,
unsigned long addr)
if (IS_ERR(vma)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(vma);
do_munmap(mm, text_start, image->size);
+ } else {
+ current->mm->context.vdso = (void __user *)text_start;
+ current->mm->context.vdso_image = image;
}
up_fail:
- if (ret) {
- current->mm->context.vdso = NULL;
- current->mm->context.vdso_image = NULL;
- }
-
up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
return ret;
}
--
2.10.1
