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authorKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>2012-10-09 01:28:51 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-09 09:22:18 +0200
commit2dd8ad81e31d0d36a5d448329c646ab43eb17788 (patch)
treecd358be45ed8067673edac7f1db6b6a42a96d9db /kernel/fork.c
parentmm: kill vma flag VM_CAN_NONLINEAR (diff)
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mm: use mm->exe_file instead of first VM_EXECUTABLE vma->vm_file
Some security modules and oprofile still uses VM_EXECUTABLE for retrieving a task's executable file. After this patch they will use mm->exe_file directly. mm->exe_file is protected with mm->mmap_sem, so locking stays the same. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> [arch/tile] Acked-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> [tomoyo] Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index a2b1efc20928..a57a993681ed 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -656,8 +656,7 @@ struct file *get_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
struct file *exe_file;
- /* We need mmap_sem to protect against races with removal of
- * VM_EXECUTABLE vmas */
+ /* We need mmap_sem to protect against races with removal of exe_file */
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
exe_file = mm->exe_file;
if (exe_file)