From afe85051b486d5d558d93ab2e509dc3bfdffc2c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 13:01:44 -0700
Subject: hugetlb: prevent BUG_ON in hugetlb_fault() -> hugetlb_cow()

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 <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
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>
---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'mm')

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index f7001ac..00b0abb 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2398,7 +2398,6 @@ 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);
 				goto retry_avoidcopy;
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