At the point where find_active_uprobe_rcu() is used we know that VMA in question has triggered software breakpoint, so we don't need to validate vma->vm_flags. Keep only vma->vm_file NULL check. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/events/uprobes.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c index a2e6a57f79f2..7bd9111b4e8b 100644 --- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c +++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c @@ -2091,7 +2091,7 @@ static struct uprobe *find_active_uprobe_rcu(unsigned long bp_vaddr, int *is_swb mmap_read_lock(mm); vma = vma_lookup(mm, bp_vaddr); if (vma) { - if (valid_vma(vma, false)) { + if (vma->vm_file) { struct inode *inode = file_inode(vma->vm_file); loff_t offset = vaddr_to_offset(vma, bp_vaddr); -- 2.43.5