Fix crash when ptrace poking hugepage areas

[David Gibson]

Bill, does this look like the correct fix for the problem to you?  If
so, please apply Andrew.

set_page_dirty() will not cope with being handed a page * which is
part of a compound page, but not the master page in that compound
page.  This case can occur via access_process_vm() if you attempt to
write to another process's hugepage memory area using ptrace()
(causing an oops or hang).

This patch fixes the bug by first resolving the page * to the compound
page's master page.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Index: working-2.6/mm/page-writeback.c
===================================================================
--- working-2.6.orig/mm/page-writeback.c	2005-11-29 15:51:11.000000000 +1100
+++ working-2.6/mm/page-writeback.c	2005-11-29 15:52:09.000000000 +1100
@@ -660,7 +660,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage
  */
 int fastcall set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
 {
-	struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
+	struct address_space *mapping;
+
+	if (unlikely(PageCompound(page)))
+		page = (struct page *)page_private(page);
+
+	mapping = page_mapping(page);
 
 	if (likely(mapping)) {
 		int (*spd)(struct page *) = mapping->a_ops->set_page_dirty;

-- 
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