[PATCH] freepgt: sys_mincore ignore FIRST_USER_PGD_NR

Remove use of FIRST_USER_PGD_NR from sys_mincore: it's inconsistent (no other
syscall refers to it), unnecessary (sys_mincore loops over vmas further down)
and incorrect (misses user addresses in ARM's first pgd).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/mm/mincore.c b/mm/mincore.c
index 07833dc..7289078 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/mincore.c
+++ b/mm/mincore.c
@@ -118,9 +118,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_mincore(unsigned long start, size_t len,
        if (start & ~PAGE_CACHE_MASK)
                goto einval;
 
-       if (start < FIRST_USER_PGD_NR * PGDIR_SIZE)
-               goto enomem;
-
        limit = TASK_SIZE;
        if (start >= limit)
                goto enomem;