3 files changed, 3 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index c948d4ca8bde..fe5f674d7a7d 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -225,9 +225,9 @@ config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
           For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
           a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
           On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
-          Programs which use vm86 functionality would either need additional
-          permissions from either the LSM or the capabilities module or have
-          this protection disabled.
+          Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map
+          this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this
+          protection by setting the value to 0.
 
           This value can be changed after boot using the
           /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 34579b23ebd5..8101de490c73 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -88,9 +88,6 @@ int sysctl_overcommit_ratio = 50;	/* default is 50% */
 int sysctl_max_map_count __read_mostly = DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT;
 struct percpu_counter vm_committed_as;
 
-/* amount of vm to protect from userspace access */
-unsigned long mmap_min_addr = CONFIG_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR;
-
 /*
  * Check that a process has enough memory to allocate a new virtual
  * mapping. 0 means there is enough memory for the allocation to
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 53cab10fece4..28754c40be98 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -69,9 +69,6 @@ int sysctl_max_map_count = DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT;
 int sysctl_nr_trim_pages = CONFIG_NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS;
 int heap_stack_gap = 0;
 
-/* amount of vm to protect from userspace access */
-unsigned long mmap_min_addr = CONFIG_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR;
-
 atomic_long_t mmap_pages_allocated;
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mem_map);