Re: [PATCH 5/6] mm/page_alloc.c: avoid accessing uninitialized pcp page migratetype

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Tue Aug 31 2021 - 10:23:15 EST


On 31.08.21 15:43, Mel Gorman wrote:
On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 10:10:50PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
If it's not prepared to free unref page, the pcp page migratetype is
unset. Thus We will get rubbish from get_pcppage_migratetype() and
might list_del &page->lru again after it's already deleted from the
list leading to grumble about data corruption.

Fixes: 3dcbe270d8ec ("mm/page_alloc: avoid conflating IRQs disabled with zone->lock")
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This fix is fairly important. Take this patch out and send it on its own
so it gets picked up relatively quickly. It does not belong in a series
that is mostly cosmetic cleanups.

I think the commit id is wrong. Shouldn't that be

df1acc856923 ("mm/page_alloc: avoid conflating IRQs disabled with zone->lock")

?

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb