[PATCH] hugetlbfs: Call VM_BUG_ON_PAGE earlier in free_huge_page

From: Yongkai Wu
Date: Thu Nov 29 2018 - 06:44:24 EST


A stack trace was triggered by VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_mapcount(page),
page) in free_huge_page(). Unfortunately, the page->mapping field
was set to NULL before this test. This made it more difficult to
determine the root cause of the problem.

Move the VM_BUG_ON_PAGE tests earlier in the function so that if
they do trigger more information is present in the page struct.

Signed-off-by: Yongkai Wu <nic_w@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 7f2a28a..14ef274 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1248,10 +1248,11 @@ void free_huge_page(struct page *page)
(struct hugepage_subpool *)page_private(page);
bool restore_reserve;

- set_page_private(page, 0);
- page->mapping = NULL;
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_count(page), page);
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_mapcount(page), page);
+
+ set_page_private(page, 0);
+ page->mapping = NULL;
restore_reserve = PagePrivate(page);
ClearPagePrivate(page);

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1.8.3.1