diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/extable.c b/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
index 6521134057e8..856fa409c536 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
@@ -117,67 +117,11 @@ __visible bool ex_handler_fprestore(const struct exception_table_entry *fixup,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ex_handler_fprestore);
 
-/* Helper to check whether a uaccess fault indicates a kernel bug. */
-static bool bogus_uaccess(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr,
-			  unsigned long fault_addr)
-{
-	/* This is the normal case: #PF with a fault address in userspace. */
-	if (trapnr == X86_TRAP_PF && fault_addr < TASK_SIZE_MAX)
-		return false;
-
-	/*
-	 * This code can be reached for machine checks, but only if the #MC
-	 * handler has already decided that it looks like a candidate for fixup.
-	 * This e.g. happens when attempting to access userspace memory which
-	 * the CPU can't access because of uncorrectable bad memory.
-	 */
-	if (trapnr == X86_TRAP_MC)
-		return false;
-
-	/*
-	 * There are two remaining exception types we might encounter here:
-	 *  - #PF for faulting accesses to kernel addresses
-	 *  - #GP for faulting accesses to noncanonical addresses
-	 * Complain about anything else.
-	 */
-	if (trapnr != X86_TRAP_PF && trapnr != X86_TRAP_GP) {
-		WARN(1, "unexpected trap %d in uaccess\n", trapnr);
-		return false;
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * This is a faulting memory access in kernel space, on a kernel
-	 * address, in a usercopy function. This can e.g. be caused by improper
-	 * use of helpers like __put_user and by improper attempts to access
-	 * userspace addresses in KERNEL_DS regions.
-	 * The one (semi-)legitimate exception are probe_kernel_{read,write}(),
-	 * which can be invoked from places like kgdb, /dev/mem (for reading)
-	 * and privileged BPF code (for reading).
-	 * The probe_kernel_*() functions set the kernel_uaccess_faults_ok flag
-	 * to tell us that faulting on kernel addresses, and even noncanonical
-	 * addresses, in a userspace accessor does not necessarily imply a
-	 * kernel bug, root might just be doing weird stuff.
-	 */
-	if (current->kernel_uaccess_faults_ok)
-		return false;
-
-	/* This is bad. Refuse the fixup so that we go into die(). */
-	if (trapnr == X86_TRAP_PF) {
-		pr_emerg("BUG: pagefault on kernel address 0x%lx in non-whitelisted uaccess\n",
-			 fault_addr);
-	} else {
-		pr_emerg("BUG: GPF in non-whitelisted uaccess (non-canonical address?)\n");
-	}
-	return true;
-}
-
 __visible bool ex_handler_uaccess(const struct exception_table_entry *fixup,
 				  struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr,
 				  unsigned long error_code,
 				  unsigned long fault_addr)
 {
-	if (bogus_uaccess(regs, trapnr, fault_addr))
-		return false;
 	regs->ip = ex_fixup_addr(fixup);
 	return true;
 }
@@ -188,8 +132,6 @@ __visible bool ex_handler_ext(const struct exception_table_entry *fixup,
 			      unsigned long error_code,
 			      unsigned long fault_addr)
 {
-	if (bogus_uaccess(regs, trapnr, fault_addr))
-		return false;
 	/* Special hack for uaccess_err */
 	current->thread.uaccess_err = 1;
 	regs->ip = ex_fixup_addr(fixup);
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index a677b59efd74..678ef175d63a 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -2698,7 +2698,6 @@ static long exact_copy_from_user(void *to, const void __user * from,
 	if (!access_ok(from, n))
 		return n;
 
-	current->kernel_uaccess_faults_ok++;
 	while (n) {
 		if (__get_user(c, f)) {
 			memset(t, 0, n);
@@ -2708,7 +2707,6 @@ static long exact_copy_from_user(void *to, const void __user * from,
 		f++;
 		n--;
 	}
-	current->kernel_uaccess_faults_ok--;
 	return n;
 }
 
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index bba3afb4e9bf..f9b43c989577 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -739,12 +739,6 @@ struct task_struct {
 	unsigned			use_memdelay:1;
 #endif
 
-	/*
-	 * May usercopy functions fault on kernel addresses?
-	 * This is not just a single bit because this can potentially nest.
-	 */
-	unsigned int			kernel_uaccess_faults_ok;
-
 	unsigned long			atomic_flags; /* Flags requiring atomic access. */
 
 	struct restart_block		restart_block;
diff --git a/mm/maccess.c b/mm/maccess.c
index f3416632e5a4..ec00be51a24f 100644
--- a/mm/maccess.c
+++ b/mm/maccess.c
@@ -30,10 +30,8 @@ long __probe_kernel_read(void *dst, const void *src, size_t size)
 
 	set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
 	pagefault_disable();
-	current->kernel_uaccess_faults_ok++;
 	ret = __copy_from_user_inatomic(dst,
 			(__force const void __user *)src, size);
-	current->kernel_uaccess_faults_ok--;
 	pagefault_enable();
 	set_fs(old_fs);
 
@@ -60,9 +58,7 @@ long __probe_kernel_write(void *dst, const void *src, size_t size)
 
 	set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
 	pagefault_disable();
-	current->kernel_uaccess_faults_ok++;
 	ret = __copy_to_user_inatomic((__force void __user *)dst, src, size);
-	current->kernel_uaccess_faults_ok--;
 	pagefault_enable();
 	set_fs(old_fs);
 
@@ -98,13 +94,11 @@ long strncpy_from_unsafe(char *dst, const void *unsafe_addr, long count)
 
 	set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
 	pagefault_disable();
-	current->kernel_uaccess_faults_ok++;
 
 	do {
 		ret = __get_user(*dst++, (const char __user __force *)src++);
 	} while (dst[-1] && ret == 0 && src - unsafe_addr < count);
 
-	current->kernel_uaccess_faults_ok--;
 	dst[-1] = '\0';
 	pagefault_enable();
 	set_fs(old_fs);