[PATCH] mm/page_alloc: Correct return value of populated elements if bulk array is populated

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Mon Jun 28 2021 - 11:29:11 EST


Dave Jones reported the following

This made it into 5.13 final, and completely breaks NFSD for me
(Serving tcp v3 mounts). Existing mounts on clients hang, as do
new mounts from new clients. Rebooting the server back to rc7
everything recovers.

The commit b3b64ebd3822 ("mm/page_alloc: do bulk array bounds check after
checking populated elements") returns the wrong value if the array is
already populated which is interpreted as an allocation failure. Dave
reported this fixes his problem and it also passed a test running dbench
over NFS.

Fixes: b3b64ebd3822 ("mm/page_alloc: do bulk array bounds check after checking populated elements")
Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [5.13+]
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index ef2265f86b91..04220581579c 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5058,7 +5058,7 @@ unsigned long __alloc_pages_bulk(gfp_t gfp, int preferred_nid,

/* Already populated array? */
if (unlikely(page_array && nr_pages - nr_populated == 0))
- return 0;
+ return nr_populated;

/* Use the single page allocator for one page. */
if (nr_pages - nr_populated == 1)