[ 21/47] hugetlb: prevent BUG_ON in hugetlb_fault() -> hugetlb_cow()
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2012-05-18 23:15:57
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3.3-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Chris Metcalf <redacted>
commit 4998a6c0edce7fae9c0a5463f6ec3fa585258ee7 upstream.
Commit 66aebce747eaf ("hugetlb: fix race condition in hugetlb_fault()")
added code to avoid a race condition by elevating the page refcount in
hugetlb_fault() while calling hugetlb_cow().
However, one code path in hugetlb_cow() includes an assertion that the
page count is 1, whereas it may now also have the value 2 in this path.
The consensus is that this BUG_ON has served its purpose, so rather than
extending it to cover both cases, we just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <redacted>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <redacted>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <redacted>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <redacted>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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mm/hugetlb.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c@@ -2486,7 +2486,6 @@ retry_avoidcopy: if (outside_reserve) { BUG_ON(huge_pte_none(pte)); if (unmap_ref_private(mm, vma, old_page, address)) { - BUG_ON(page_count(old_page) != 1); BUG_ON(huge_pte_none(pte)); spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock); ptep = huge_pte_offset(mm, address & huge_page_mask(h));