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Commit b5641a5d authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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mm: don't do validate_mm() unnecessarily and without mmap locking



This is an addition to commit ae80b404 ("mm: validate the mm before
dropping the mmap lock"), because it turns out there were two problems,
but lockdep just stopped complaining after finding the first one.

The do_vmi_align_munmap() function now drops the mmap lock after doing
the validate_mm() call, but it turns out that one of the callers then
immediately calls validate_mm() again.

That's both a bit silly, and now (again) happens without the mmap lock
held.

So just remove that validate_mm() call from the caller, but make sure to
not lose any coverage by doing that mm sanity checking in the error path
of do_vmi_align_munmap() too.

Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarkernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZKN6CdkKyxBShPHi@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/


Fixes: 408579cd ("mm: Update do_vmi_align_munmap() return semantics")
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 24be4d0b
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