Re: [PATCH 1/4] ipc/shm: do not check for MAP_POPULATE

[Hugh Dickins]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:

> We do not support prefaulting functionality in sysv shm,
> nor MAP_NONBLOCK for that matter. Drop the pointless check
> for populate in do_shmat().

I haven't checked, but are you sure that "populated" does nothing
when the attacher had previously called mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)?

Hugh

> 
> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  ipc/shm.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c
> index 06ea9ef7f54a..6b3769967789 100644
> --- a/ipc/shm.c
> +++ b/ipc/shm.c
> @@ -1234,8 +1234,6 @@ long do_shmat(int shmid, char __user *shmaddr, int shmflg,
>  		err = (long)addr;
>  invalid:
>  	up_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
> -	if (populate)
> -		mm_populate(addr, populate);
>  
>  out_fput:
>  	fput(file);
> -- 
> 2.6.6