linux-kernel - [228/289] mm/hugetlb.c: avoid double unlock_page() in hugetlb

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Date:	Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:00:05 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Dean Nelson <dnelson@...hat.com>
Subject: [228/289] mm/hugetlb.c: avoid double unlock_page() in hugetlb_fault()

2.6.36-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Dean Nelson <dnelson@...hat.com>

commit 1f64d69c7ad2e48e697493e45590679f7a69b7b2 upstream.

Have hugetlb_fault() call unlock_page(page) only if it had previously
called lock_page(page).

Setting CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y and then running the libhugetlbfs test suite,
resulted in the tripping of VM_BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page)) in
unlock_page() having been called by hugetlb_fault() when page ==
pagecache_page.  This patch remedied the problem.

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dnelson@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 mm/hugetlb.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2668,7 +2668,8 @@ out_page_table_lock:
 		unlock_page(pagecache_page);
 		put_page(pagecache_page);
 	}
-	unlock_page(page);
+	if (page != pagecache_page)
+		unlock_page(page);
 
 out_mutex:
 	mutex_unlock(&hugetlb_instantiation_mutex);


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