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Naoya Horiguchi
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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 commit1ad9f620c3("mm: numa: recheck for transhuge pages under lock during protection changes") and still remains after commit175ad4f1e7("mm: mprotect: use pmd_trans_unstable instead of taking the pmd_lock") which partially reverts1ad9f620c3. 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: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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