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-rw-r--r--mm/hugetlb.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index e0fda156f021..db861d8b6c28 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -699,6 +699,11 @@ int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst, struct mm_struct *src,
dst_pte = huge_pte_alloc(dst, addr);
if (!dst_pte)
goto nomem;
+
+ /* If the pagetables are shared don't copy or take references */
+ if (dst_pte == src_pte)
+ continue;
+
spin_lock(&dst->page_table_lock);
spin_lock(&src->page_table_lock);
if (!pte_none(*src_pte)) {