Those pointers were initialized before call to _install_special_mapping()
after the commit:
f7b6eb3fa0 ("x86: Set context.vdso before installing the mapping")
This is not required anymore as special mappings have their vma name and
don't use arch_vma_name() after commit:
a62c34bd2a ("x86, mm: Improve _install_special_mapping and fix x86 vdso naming")
So, this way to init looks less entangled.
I even belive that we can remove NULL initializers:
- on failure load_elf_binary() will not start a new thread;
- arch_prctl will have the same pointers as before syscall.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: 0x7f454c46@gmail.com
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161027141516.28447-3-dsafonov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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