Re: [PATCH v8 2/3] mm/hwpoison: put page in already hwpoisoned case with MF_COUNT_INCREASED

From: Mike Kravetz
Date: Thu Apr 14 2022 - 15:41:44 EST


On 4/8/22 06:53, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> From: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx>
>
> In already hwpoisoned case, memory_failure() is supposed to return with
> releasing the page refcount taken for error handling. But currently the
> refcount is not released when called with MF_COUNT_INCREASED, which
> makes page refcount inconsistent. This should be rare and non-critical,
> but it might be inconvenient in testing (unpoison doesn't work).
>
> Suggested-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/memory-failure.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>

--
Mike Kravetz

>
> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
> index 2020944398c9..b2e32cdc3823 100644
> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -1811,6 +1811,8 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
> res = -EHWPOISON;
> if (flags & MF_ACTION_REQUIRED)
> res = kill_accessing_process(current, pfn, flags);
> + if (flags & MF_COUNT_INCREASED)
> + put_page(p);
> goto unlock_mutex;
> }
>