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-rw-r--r--mm/mmap.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 011ba48d9e72..673429ee8a9e 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -943,6 +943,11 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vma_merge(struct vma_iterator *vmi, struct mm_struct *mm,
vma_start_write(curr);
remove = curr;
remove2 = next;
+ /*
+ * Note that the dup_anon_vma below cannot overwrite err
+ * since the first caller would do nothing unless next
+ * has an anon_vma.
+ */
if (!next->anon_vma)
err = dup_anon_vma(prev, curr, &anon_dup);
}