Re: [PATCH -mm] mm, swap: Fix bad swap file entry warning

[Huang\, Ying]

Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri 31-05-19 10:41:02, Huang, Ying wrote:
>> From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> Mike reported the following warning messages
>> 
>>   get_swap_device: Bad swap file entry 1400000000000001
>> 
>> This is produced by
>> 
>> - total_swapcache_pages()
>>   - get_swap_device()
>> 
>> Where get_swap_device() is used to check whether the swap device is
>> valid and prevent it from being swapoff if so.  But get_swap_device()
>> may produce warning message as above for some invalid swap devices.
>> This is fixed via calling swp_swap_info() before get_swap_device() to
>> filter out the swap devices that may cause warning messages.
>> 
>> Fixes: 6a946753dbe6 ("mm/swap_state.c: simplify total_swapcache_pages() with get_swap_device()")
>
> I suspect this is referring to a mmotm patch right?

Yes.

> There doesn't seem
> to be any sha like this in Linus' tree AFAICS. If that is the case then
> please note that mmotm patch showing up in linux-next do not have a
> stable sha1 and therefore you shouldn't reference them in the commit
> message. Instead please refer to the specific mmotm patch file so that
> Andrew knows it should be folded in to it.

Thanks for reminding!  I will be more careful in the future.  It seems
that Andrew has identified the right patch to be folded into.

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying