diff --git a/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c b/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c
index f34b5b2..d93b2b6 100644
--- a/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c
+++ b/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
 }
 
 
-/* Look up the dcookie for the task's first VM_EXECUTABLE mapping,
+/* Look up the dcookie for the task's mm->exe_file,
  * which corresponds loosely to "application name". This is
  * not strictly necessary but allows oprofile to associate
  * shared-library samples with particular applications
@@ -224,21 +224,10 @@
 static unsigned long get_exec_dcookie(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 	unsigned long cookie = NO_COOKIE;
-	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
 
-	if (!mm)
-		goto out;
+	if (mm && mm->exe_file)
+		cookie = fast_get_dcookie(&mm->exe_file->f_path);
 
-	for (vma = mm->mmap; vma; vma = vma->vm_next) {
-		if (!vma->vm_file)
-			continue;
-		if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_EXECUTABLE))
-			continue;
-		cookie = fast_get_dcookie(&vma->vm_file->f_path);
-		break;
-	}
-
-out:
 	return cookie;
 }