Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/hugetlb: fix unable to handle page fault for address dead000000000108

From: Miaohe Lin
Date: Fri Apr 19 2024 - 05:07:31 EST


On 2024/4/19 4:38, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:20:00 +0800 Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Below panic occurs when I did memory failure test:
>>
>> BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: dead000000000108
>>
>> ...
>>
>> The root cause is that list_del() is used to remove folio from list when
>> dissolve_free_hugetlb_folio(). But list_move() might be used to reenqueue
>> hugetlb folio when free_huge_folio() leading to above panic. Fix this
>> issue by using list_del_init() to remove folio.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
>> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
>> @@ -1642,7 +1642,7 @@ static void __remove_hugetlb_folio(struct hstate *h, struct folio *folio,
>> if (hstate_is_gigantic(h) && !gigantic_page_runtime_supported())
>> return;
>>
>> - list_del(&folio->lru);
>> + list_del_init(&folio->lru);
>>
>> if (folio_test_hugetlb_freed(folio)) {
>> h->free_huge_pages--;
>
> We should cc:stable and find a Fixes:. This appears to predate
> 6eb4e88a6d27022ea8aff424d47a0a5dfc9fcb34, after which I got lost.

I think this series can be dropped because this didn't fix the root cause.
Please see my v2 patch for details. So this Fixes tag isn't needed anymore.
Thanks.
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