We are about to fill in all HPAGE_SIZE's worth
of PAGE_SIZE ptes, so we have to give the first
pte in that set else we scribble over random memory
when we fill in the ptes.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
pmd_t *pmd;
pte_t *pte = NULL;
+ /* We must align the address, because our caller will run
+ * set_huge_pte_at() on whatever we return, which writes out
+ * all of the sub-ptes for the hugepage range. So we have
+ * to give it the first such sub-pte.
+ */
+ addr &= HPAGE_MASK;
+
pgd = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
pud = pud_alloc(mm, pgd, addr);
if (pud) {