Re: [PATCH] mm/hwpoison: fix page refcount of unkown non LRU page

From: Naoya Horiguchi
Date: Fri Aug 07 2015 - 03:50:26 EST


On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 04:09:37PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> After try to drain pages from pagevec/pageset, we try to get reference
> count of the page again, however, the reference count of the page is
> not reduced if the page is still not on LRU list. This patch fix it by
> adding the put_page() to drop the page reference which is from
> __get_any_page().
>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx>

This fix is correct. Thanks you for catching this, Wanpeng!

Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

BTW, I think this patch is worth sending to stable tree. It seems that
the latest change around this code is given by the following commit:

commit af8fae7c08862bb85c5cf445bf9b36314b82111f
Author: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Feb 22 16:34:03 2013 -0800

mm/memory-failure.c: clean up soft_offline_page()

. I think that this bug existed before this commit, but this patch is
cleanly applicable only after this patch, so I think tagging
"Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 3.9+" is good.

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi

> ---
> mm/memory-failure.c | 2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
> index c53543d..23163d0 100644
> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -1535,6 +1535,8 @@ static int get_any_page(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn, int flags)
> */
> ret = __get_any_page(page, pfn, 0);
> if (!PageLRU(page)) {
> + /* Drop page reference which is from __get_any_page() */
> + put_page(page);
> pr_info("soft_offline: %#lx: unknown non LRU page type %lx\n",
> pfn, page->flags);
> return -EIO;
> --
> 1.7.1
> --
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