On Tue, 18 Sep 2018, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> There are no more users of the computed pkey value in __do_page_fault
> so stop computing the value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebied...@xmission.com>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>

> ---
>  arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> index 7ba00519fa5d..f82106578364 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> @@ -1215,7 +1215,6 @@ __do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long 
> error_code,
>       struct mm_struct *mm;
>       vm_fault_t fault, major = 0;
>       unsigned int flags = FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY | FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE;
> -     u32 pkey;
>  
>       tsk = current;
>       mm = tsk->mm;
> @@ -1387,10 +1386,7 @@ __do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long 
> error_code,
>        * (potentially after handling any pending signal during the return to
>        * userland). The return to userland is identified whenever
>        * FAULT_FLAG_USER|FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE are both set in flags.
> -      * Thus we have to be careful about not touching vma after handling the
> -      * fault, so we read the pkey beforehand.
>        */
> -     pkey = vma_pkey(vma);
>       fault = handle_mm_fault(vma, address, flags);
>       major |= fault & VM_FAULT_MAJOR;
>  
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
> 

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