The dup_mm-function used during 'do_fork' to duplicate the current task's mm_struct for the newly forked task always implicitly uses current->mm for this purpose. However, during copy_mm it was already decided which mm_struct to copy/duplicate. So pass this mm_struct to dup_mm instead of again deciding which mm_struct to use. Signed-off-by: Till Smejkal <till.smejkal@xxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/fork.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 9209f6d5d7c0..d3087d870855 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1158,9 +1158,10 @@ void mm_release(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm) * Allocate a new mm structure and copy contents from the * mm structure of the passed in task structure. */ -static struct mm_struct *dup_mm(struct task_struct *tsk) +static struct mm_struct *dup_mm(struct task_struct *tsk, + struct mm_struct *oldmm) { - struct mm_struct *mm, *oldmm = current->mm; + struct mm_struct *mm; int err; mm = allocate_mm(); @@ -1226,7 +1227,7 @@ static int copy_mm(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk) } retval = -ENOMEM; - mm = dup_mm(tsk); + mm = dup_mm(tsk, oldmm); if (!mm) goto fail_nomem; -- 2.12.0