Re: [PATCH] mm: madvise: complete input validation before takinglock

[David Rientjes]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:

> In madvise(), there doesn't seem to be any reason for taking the
> &current->mm->mmap_sem before start and len_in have been
> validated. Incidentally, this removes the need for the out: label.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

Would be nice to do s/out_plug/out/ now if you have a chance.
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