Re: [PATCH] mm: memory-failure: fix unexpected return value in soft_offline_page()

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 19:28:08 +0800 Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When page_handle_poison() fails to handle the hugepage or free page in
> retry path, soft_offline_page() will return 0 while -EBUSY is expected
> in this case.

What are the user visible effects of the bug?

> Fixes: b94e02822deb ("mm,hwpoison: try to narrow window race for free pages")
>
> ...
>
> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -2737,10 +2737,13 @@ int soft_offline_page(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
>  	if (ret > 0) {
>  		ret = soft_offline_in_use_page(page);
>  	} else if (ret == 0) {
> -		if (!page_handle_poison(page, true, false) && try_again) {
> -			try_again = false;
> -			flags &= ~MF_COUNT_INCREASED;
> -			goto retry;
> +		if (!page_handle_poison(page, true, false)) {
> +			if (try_again) {
> +				try_again = false;
> +				flags &= ~MF_COUNT_INCREASED;
> +				goto retry;
> +			}
> +			ret = -EBUSY;
>  		}
>  	}