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 <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]

---
 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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