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authorKirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>2026-03-19 00:45:23 +0000
committerKirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>2026-03-19 00:45:23 +0000
commit51446d33c6fbc27ce21f54ebb4c27caace48c3be (patch)
tree4439f625563490fb7835108efddf84abaa508452
parent8f41ee95f9e05b3848d793deaacd591ee2387f0e (diff)
Delete error-check code that can never happen.
Near the top of kern_mmap() that implements the mmap(2) system call, it sets prot = PROT_EXTRACT(prot); with So prot can only be the three PROT_ flags. The following test of the user's mmap(2) parameters (near line 275 in vm/vm_mmap.c): if (prot != PROT_NONE && (prot & ~(PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC)) != 0) { return (EXTERROR(EINVAL, "invalid prot %#jx", prot)); } can never fail. This commit deletes it. No functional change intended. Reviewed by: kib MFC-after: 1 week Sponsored by: Netflix
-rw-r--r--sys/vm/vm_mmap.c4
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/sys/vm/vm_mmap.c b/sys/vm/vm_mmap.c
index 234586893b59..cb5906440f56 100644
--- a/sys/vm/vm_mmap.c
+++ b/sys/vm/vm_mmap.c
@@ -271,10 +271,6 @@ kern_mmap(struct thread *td, const struct mmap_req *mrp)
return (EXTERROR(EINVAL,
"both SHARED and PRIVATE set (flags %#jx)", flags));
}
- if (prot != PROT_NONE &&
- (prot & ~(PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC)) != 0) {
- return (EXTERROR(EINVAL, "invalid prot %#jx", prot));
- }
if ((flags & MAP_GUARD) != 0 && (prot != PROT_NONE || fd != -1 ||
pos != 0 || (flags & ~(MAP_FIXED | MAP_GUARD | MAP_EXCL |
MAP_32BIT | MAP_ALIGNMENT_MASK)) != 0)) {