mm: fix potential infinite loop in dissolve_free_huge_pages()

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commit d017763931 upstream.

It is possible for some platforms, such as powerpc to set HPAGE_SHIFT to
0 to indicate huge pages not supported.

When this is the case, hugetlbfs could be disabled during boot time:
hugetlbfs: disabling because there are no supported hugepage sizes

Then in dissolve_free_huge_pages(), order is kept maximum (64 for
64bits), and the for loop below won't end: for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn <
end_pfn; pfn += 1 << order)

As suggested by Naoya, below fix checks hugepages_supported() before
calling dissolve_free_huge_pages().

[rientjes@google.com: no legitimate reason to call dissolve_free_huge_pages() when !hugepages_supported()]
Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Li Zhong 2014-08-06 16:07:56 -07:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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