[merged] mm-mempolicy-remove-bug_on-checks-for-vma-inside-mpol_misplaced.patch removed from -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: mm/mempolicy.c: remove BUG_ON() checks for VMA inside mpol_misplaced()
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-mempolicy-remove-bug_on-checks-for-vma-inside-mpol_misplaced.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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From: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/mempolicy.c: remove BUG_ON() checks for VMA inside mpol_misplaced()

VMA and its address bounds checks are too late in this function.  They
must have been verified earlier in the page fault sequence.  Hence just
remove them.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170901130137.7617-1-khandual@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/mempolicy.c |    5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff -puN mm/mempolicy.c~mm-mempolicy-remove-bug_on-checks-for-vma-inside-mpol_misplaced mm/mempolicy.c
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c~mm-mempolicy-remove-bug_on-checks-for-vma-inside-mpol_misplaced
+++ a/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2233,17 +2233,12 @@ int mpol_misplaced(struct page *page, st
 	int polnid = -1;
 	int ret = -1;
 
-	BUG_ON(!vma);
-
 	pol = get_vma_policy(vma, addr);
 	if (!(pol->flags & MPOL_F_MOF))
 		goto out;
 
 	switch (pol->mode) {
 	case MPOL_INTERLEAVE:
-		BUG_ON(addr >= vma->vm_end);
-		BUG_ON(addr < vma->vm_start);
-
 		pgoff = vma->vm_pgoff;
 		pgoff += (addr - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 		polnid = offset_il_node(pol, pgoff);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from khandual@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are


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