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thp: change_huge_pmd(): make sure we don't try to make a page writable
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mprotect core never tries to make page writable using change_huge_pmd().
Let's add an assert that the assumption is true.  It's important to be
sure we will not make huge zero page writable.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored and Linus Torvalds committed Dec 13, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -1273,6 +1273,7 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
pmd_t entry;
entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd);
entry = pmd_modify(entry, newprot);
BUG_ON(pmd_write(entry));
set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, entry);
spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
ret = 1;
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