diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 1ec0e883912d..2a48704e19bb 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 1e2ae599d37e60958c03ca5e46b1f657619a30cd
+refs/heads/master: 779c10232ceb11c1b259232c4845cfb2850287b7
diff --git a/trunk/mm/nommu.c b/trunk/mm/nommu.c
index 5e39294f8ea8..d6dd656264a2 100644
--- a/trunk/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/trunk/mm/nommu.c
@@ -1441,10 +1441,9 @@ int split_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 
 	kenter("");
 
-	/* we're only permitted to split anonymous regions that have a single
-	 * owner */
-	if (vma->vm_file ||
-	    vma->vm_region->vm_usage != 1)
+	/* we're only permitted to split anonymous regions (these should have
+	 * only a single usage on the region) */
+	if (vma->vm_file)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	if (mm->map_count >= sysctl_max_map_count)