stop c_p_a corrupting the pds

When change_page_attr splits a large page on x86_32 (without PAE), it is currently corrupting every process's page directory: fix that by removing the thinko which passes down a physical instead of a virtual address. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
git-mirror · Feb 5, 2008 · 8cb2a7c · 8cb2a7c
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diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -237,7 +237,6 @@ static void __set_pmd_pte(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address, pte_t pte)
 	if (!SHARED_KERNEL_PMD) {
 		struct page *page;
 
-		address = __pa(address);
 		list_for_each_entry(page, &pgd_list, lru) {
 			pgd_t *pgd;
 			pud_t *pud;