** Description changed:

- Most VM places are using pmd_none but a few are still using pmd_present.
- The meaning is about the same for the pmd. However pmd_present would
- return the wrong value on PROT_NONE ranges. When the code using
- pmd_present gets a false negative, the kernel will crash. An
- unprivileged local user could use this flaw to crash the system.
+ arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h in the Linux kernel before 3.6.2, when
+ transparent huge pages are used, does not properly support PROT_NONE
+ memory regions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service
+ (system crash) via a crafted application.
  
  Break-Fix: - 027ef6c87853b0a9df53175063028edb4950d476

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