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authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>2013-10-16 13:47:09 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-10-16 21:35:53 -0700
commit57a8f0cdb87da776bf0e4ce7554a9133854fa779 (patch)
treefe920bc16fe4ef97e94d31fce5f25bbecaff6e57 /mm
parent750e8165f5e87b6a142be953640eabb13a9d350a (diff)
downloadlinux-57a8f0cdb87da776bf0e4ce7554a9133854fa779.tar.bz2
mm: revert mremap pud_free anti-fix
Revert commit 1ecfd533f4c5 ("mm/mremap.c: call pud_free() after fail calling pmd_alloc()"). The original code was correct: pud_alloc(), pmd_alloc(), pte_alloc_map() ensure that the pud, pmd, pt is already allocated, and seldom do they need to allocate; on failure, upper levels are freed if appropriate by the subsequent do_munmap(). Whereas commit 1ecfd533f4c5 did an unconditional pud_free() of a most-likely still-in-use pud: saved only by the near-impossiblity of pmd_alloc() failing. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/mremap.c5
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
index 91b13d6a16d4..0843feb66f3d 100644
--- a/mm/mremap.c
+++ b/mm/mremap.c
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
-#include <asm/pgalloc.h>
#include "internal.h"
@@ -63,10 +62,8 @@ static pmd_t *alloc_new_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return NULL;
pmd = pmd_alloc(mm, pud, addr);
- if (!pmd) {
- pud_free(mm, pud);
+ if (!pmd)
return NULL;
- }
VM_BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd));