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Subjecteither bug or unnecessary code in exit_mm()

In the last few kernels (at least as far back as 2.6.10), exit_mm()
looks like this:


static void exit_mm(struct task_struct * tsk)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = tsk->mm;

mm_release(tsk, mm);
if (!mm)
return;




while mm_release() looks like this:




void mm_release(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
{
<snip>
if (tsk->clear_child_tid && atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) > 1) {





If it's valid to call exit_mm() with tsk->mm being NULL, then it seems
like we'll get problems when we dereference it unconditionally in
mm_release().

If mm_release() is valid, then the check for !mm in exit_mm() is
unnecessary but there should probably be a comment.

Can someone tell me which one it is?

Thanks,

Chris
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