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futex: Remove unnecessary warning from get_futex_key

      Commit 65d8fc777f6d ("futex: Remove requirement for lock_page() in
get_futex_key()") removed an unnecessary lock_page() with the
side-effect that page->mapping needed to be treated very carefully.

Two defensive warnings were added in case any assumption was missed and
the first warning assumed a correct application would not alter a
mapping backing a futex key.  Since merging, it has not triggered for
any unexpected case but Mark Rutland reported the following bug
triggering due to the first warning.

  kernel BUG at kernel/futex.c:679!
  Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 3695 Comm: syz-executor1 Not tainted 4.13.0-rc3-00020-g307fec773ba3 #3
  Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
  task: ffff80001e271780 task.stack: ffff000010908000
  PC is at get_futex_key+0x6a4/0xcf0 kernel/futex.c:679
  LR is at get_futex_key+0x6a4/0xcf0 kernel/futex.c:679
  pc : [<ffff00000821ac14>] lr : [<ffff0000
    
commit 48fb6f4db940e92cfb16cd878cddd59ea6120d06
+3 -2
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