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authorJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>2020-12-14 19:07:45 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-12-15 12:13:40 -0800
commitd3f5ffcacd1528736471bc78f03f06da6c4551cc (patch)
tree4c32f3003f16604d86d3639fe87bc69ad674e15a /kernel/ptrace.c
parentbe37c98d1134a8e068b52618c086dab6b34b9a2c (diff)
mm: cleanup: remove unused tsk arg from __access_remote_vm
Despite a comment that said that page fault accounting would be charged to whatever task_struct* was passed into __access_remote_vm(), the tsk argument was actually unused. Making page fault accounting actually use this task struct is quite a project, so there is no point in keeping the tsk argument. Delete both the comment, and the argument. [rppt@linux.ibm.com: changelog addition] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201026074137.4147787-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/ptrace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/ptrace.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 79de1294f8eb..a77d25c641e9 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ int ptrace_access_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr,
return 0;
}
- ret = __access_remote_vm(tsk, mm, addr, buf, len, gup_flags);
+ ret = __access_remote_vm(mm, addr, buf, len, gup_flags);
mmput(mm);
return ret;