[PATCH] mm/memory-failure: fix race with compound page split/merge
From: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Date: Mon Apr 18 2016 - 07:43:56 EST
Get_hwpoison_page() must recheck relation between head and tail pages.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory-failure.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 78f5f2641b91..ca5acee53b7a 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -888,7 +888,15 @@ int get_hwpoison_page(struct page *page)
}
}
- return get_page_unless_zero(head);
+ if (get_page_unless_zero(head)) {
+ if (head == compound_head(page))
+ return 1;
+
+ pr_info("MCE: %#lx cannot catch tail\n", page_to_pfn(page));
+ put_page(head);
+ }
+
+ return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_hwpoison_page);