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Naoya Horiguchi authored
pte_offset_map_lock() finds and takes ptl, and returns pte.  But some
callers return without unlocking the ptl when pte == NULL, which seems
weird.

Git history said that !pte check in change_pte_range() was introduced in
commit 1ad9f620 ("mm: numa: recheck for transhuge pages under lock
during protection changes") and still remains after commit 175ad4f1
("mm: mprotect: use pmd_trans_unstable instead of taking the pmd_lock")
which partially reverts 1ad9f620.  So I think that it's just dead
code.

Many other caller of pte_offset_map_lock() never check NULL return, so
let's do likewise.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495089737-1292-1-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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