From 4998a6c0edce7fae9c0a5463f6ec3fa585258ee7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Metcalf Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 13:01:44 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] hugetlb: prevent BUG_ON in hugetlb_fault() -> hugetlb_cow() 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 Acked-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Hillf Danton Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: [3.0.29+, 3.2.16+, 3.3.3+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/hugetlb.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 5a16423a512c..ae8f708e3d75 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -2498,7 +2498,6 @@ 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)); -- 2.39.5