Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)

Merge second batch of patches from Andrew Morton:
 - various misc things
 - core kernel changes to prctl, exit, exec, init, etc.
 - kernel/watchdog.c updates
 - get_maintainer
 - MAINTAINERS
 - the backlight driver queue
 - core bitops code cleanups
 - the led driver queue
 - some core prio_tree work
 - checkpatch udpates
 - largeish crc32 update
 - a new poll() feature for the v4l guys
 - the rtc driver queue
 - fatfs
 - ptrace
 - signals
 - kmod/usermodehelper updates
 - coredump
 - procfs updates

* emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (141 commits)
  seq_file: add seq_set_overflow(), seq_overflow()
  proc-ns: use d_set_d_op() API to set dentry ops in proc_ns_instantiate().
  procfs: speed up /proc/pid/stat, statm
  procfs: add num_to_str() to speed up /proc/stat
  proc: speed up /proc/stat handling
  fs/proc/kcore.c: make get_sparsemem_vmemmap_info() static
  coredump: add VM_NODUMP, MADV_NODUMP, MADV_CLEAR_NODUMP
  coredump: remove VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag
  kmod: make __request_module() killable
  kmod: introduce call_modprobe() helper
  usermodehelper: ____call_usermodehelper() doesn't need do_exit()
  usermodehelper: kill umh_wait, renumber UMH_* constants
  usermodehelper: implement UMH_KILLABLE
  usermodehelper: introduce umh_complete(sub_info)
  usermodehelper: use UMH_WAIT_PROC consistently
  signal: zap_pid_ns_processes: s/SEND_SIG_NOINFO/SEND_SIG_FORCED/
  signal: oom_kill_task: use SEND_SIG_FORCED instead of force_sig()
  signal: cosmetic, s/from_ancestor_ns/force/ in prepare_signal() paths
  signal: give SEND_SIG_FORCED more power to beat SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE
  Hexagon: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
  ...

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c
index 468d591dde31..a944020fa859 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c
@@ -250,13 +250,7 @@ static int __init gate_vma_init(void)
         gate_vma.vm_end = FIXADDR_USER_END;
         gate_vma.vm_flags = VM_READ | VM_MAYREAD | VM_EXEC | VM_MAYEXEC;
         gate_vma.vm_page_prot = __P101;
-        /*
-         * Make sure the vDSO gets into every core dump.
-         * Dumping its contents makes post-mortem fully interpretable later
-         * without matching up the same kernel and hardware config to see
-         * what PC values meant.
-         */
-        gate_vma.vm_flags |= VM_ALWAYSDUMP;
+
         return 0;
 }
 
@@ -343,17 +337,10 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp)
         if (compat_uses_vma || !compat) {
                 /*
                  * MAYWRITE to allow gdb to COW and set breakpoints
-                 *
-                 * Make sure the vDSO gets into every core dump.
-                 * Dumping its contents makes post-mortem fully
-                 * interpretable later without matching up the same
-                 * kernel and hardware config to see what PC values
-                 * meant.
                  */
                 ret = install_special_mapping(mm, addr, PAGE_SIZE,
                                               VM_READ|VM_EXEC|
-                                              VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC|
-                                              VM_ALWAYSDUMP,
+                                              VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC,
                                               vdso32_pages);
 
                 if (ret)
diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c b/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c
index 153407c35b75..17e18279649f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c
@@ -124,8 +124,7 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp)
 
         ret = install_special_mapping(mm, addr, vdso_size,
                                       VM_READ|VM_EXEC|
-                                      VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC|
-                                      VM_ALWAYSDUMP,
+                                      VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC,
                                       vdso_pages);
         if (ret) {
                 current->mm->context.vdso = NULL;