There are no more users of the computed pkey value in __do_page_fault so stop computing the value. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c index 7ba00519fa5d..f82106578364 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c @@ -1215,7 +1215,6 @@ __do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code, struct mm_struct *mm; vm_fault_t fault, major = 0; unsigned int flags = FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY | FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE; - u32 pkey; tsk = current; mm = tsk->mm; @@ -1387,10 +1386,7 @@ __do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code, * (potentially after handling any pending signal during the return to * userland). The return to userland is identified whenever * FAULT_FLAG_USER|FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE are both set in flags. - * Thus we have to be careful about not touching vma after handling the - * fault, so we read the pkey beforehand. */ - pkey = vma_pkey(vma); fault = handle_mm_fault(vma, address, flags); major |= fault & VM_FAULT_MAJOR; -- 2.17.1