diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vm.c
index e957d4851dc0..14862df7532f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vm.c
@@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ static int drm_mmap_dma(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 #else
 		/* Ye gads this is ugly.  With more thought
 		   we could move this up higher and use
-		   `protection_map' instead.  */
+		   `vm_get_page_prot()' instead.  */
 		vma->vm_page_prot =
 		    __pgprot(pte_val
 			     (pte_wrprotect
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ static int drm_mmap_locked(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 #else
 		/* Ye gads this is ugly.  With more thought
 		   we could move this up higher and use
-		   `protection_map' instead.  */
+		   `vm_get_page_prot()' instead.  */
 		vma->vm_page_prot =
 		    __pgprot(pte_val
 			     (pte_wrprotect
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 213cc569b192..ff74bd2d7850 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -418,12 +418,6 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
 #endif
 #define VM_FLAGS_CLEAR	(ARCH_VM_PKEY_FLAGS | VM_ARCH_CLEAR)
 
-/*
- * mapping from the currently active vm_flags protection bits (the
- * low four bits) to a page protection mask..
- */
-extern pgprot_t protection_map[16];
-
 /*
  * The default fault flags that should be used by most of the
  * arch-specific page fault handlers.
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index f2310f6e7466..78eeac277a80 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -102,24 +102,6 @@ static void unmap_region(struct mm_struct *mm,
  *								w: (no) no
  *								x: (yes) yes
  */
-pgprot_t protection_map[16] __ro_after_init = {
-	[VM_NONE]					= __P000,
-	[VM_READ]					= __P001,
-	[VM_WRITE]					= __P010,
-	[VM_WRITE | VM_READ]				= __P011,
-	[VM_EXEC]					= __P100,
-	[VM_EXEC | VM_READ]				= __P101,
-	[VM_EXEC | VM_WRITE]				= __P110,
-	[VM_EXEC | VM_WRITE | VM_READ]			= __P111,
-	[VM_SHARED]					= __S000,
-	[VM_SHARED | VM_READ]				= __S001,
-	[VM_SHARED | VM_WRITE]				= __S010,
-	[VM_SHARED | VM_WRITE | VM_READ]		= __S011,
-	[VM_SHARED | VM_EXEC]				= __S100,
-	[VM_SHARED | VM_EXEC | VM_READ]			= __S101,
-	[VM_SHARED | VM_EXEC | VM_WRITE]		= __S110,
-	[VM_SHARED | VM_EXEC | VM_WRITE | VM_READ]	= __S111
-};
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_FILTER_PGPROT
 static inline pgprot_t arch_filter_pgprot(pgprot_t prot)
@@ -128,10 +110,49 @@ static inline pgprot_t arch_filter_pgprot(pgprot_t prot)
 }
 #endif
 
+static inline pgprot_t __vm_get_page_prot(unsigned long vm_flags)
+{
+	switch (vm_flags & (VM_READ | VM_WRITE | VM_EXEC | VM_SHARED)) {
+	case VM_NONE:
+		return __P000;
+	case VM_READ:
+		return __P001;
+	case VM_WRITE:
+		return __P010;
+	case VM_READ | VM_WRITE:
+		return __P011;
+	case VM_EXEC:
+		return __P100;
+	case VM_EXEC | VM_READ:
+		return __P101;
+	case VM_EXEC | VM_WRITE:
+		return __P110;
+	case VM_EXEC | VM_READ | VM_WRITE:
+		return __P111;
+	case VM_SHARED:
+		return __S000;
+	case VM_SHARED | VM_READ:
+		return __S001;
+	case VM_SHARED | VM_WRITE:
+		return __S010;
+	case VM_SHARED | VM_READ | VM_WRITE:
+		return __S011;
+	case VM_SHARED | VM_EXEC:
+		return __S100;
+	case VM_SHARED | VM_EXEC | VM_READ:
+		return __S101;
+	case VM_SHARED | VM_EXEC | VM_WRITE:
+		return __S110;
+	case VM_SHARED | VM_EXEC | VM_READ | VM_WRITE:
+		return __S111;
+	default:
+		BUILD_BUG();
+	}
+}
+
 pgprot_t vm_get_page_prot(unsigned long vm_flags)
 {
-	pgprot_t ret = __pgprot(pgprot_val(protection_map[vm_flags &
-				(VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC|VM_SHARED)]) |
+	pgprot_t ret = __pgprot(pgprot_val(__vm_get_page_prot(vm_flags)) |
 			pgprot_val(arch_vm_get_page_prot(vm_flags)));
 
 	return arch_filter_pgprot(ret);
@@ -1684,7 +1705,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(old_mmap, struct mmap_arg_struct __user *, arg)
 /*
  * Some shared mappings will want the pages marked read-only
  * to track write events. If so, we'll downgrade vm_page_prot
- * to the private version (using protection_map[] without the
+ * to the private version (using vm_get_page_prot() without the
  * VM_SHARED bit).
  */
 int vma_wants_writenotify(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pgprot_t vm_page_prot)
