Re: [PATCH 8/9] mm/hugetlb: convert hugetlb_wp() to take in a folio

[Sidhartha Kumar]

On 1/24/23 7:23 AM, Gerald Schaefer wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 13:14:45 -0800
> Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [...]
> >   	page = pte_page(entry);
> > -	if (page != pagecache_page)
> > +	if (page_folio(page) != pagecache_folio)
> >   		if (!trylock_page(page)) {
> >   			need_wait_lock = 1;
> >   			goto out_ptl;
> >   		}
> >   
> > -	get_page(page);
> > +	folio_get(pagecache_folio);
> >   
>
> We get a kernel crash on s390 in mprotect testcase from libhugetlbfs
> testsuite, starting with next-20230120, bisected to this commit.
>
> We get here with pagecache_folio == NULL, and crash in folio_get().
> It doesn´t seem right to replace the get_page() with folio_get()
> here, the matching put_page() at out_put_page: also wasn't changed
> correspondingly. Also, pagecache_folio == NULL seems to be a valid
> case here, on all architectures.
>
> Reverting this folio_get() to get_page() fixes the crash. Not sure
> though if I missed something. I think you only want to replace
> pagecache_page with pagecache_folio, like in the rest of the commit,
> and not page -> pagecache_folio for this get_page().
Ya that get_page(page) line should have stayed how it was before as 
pagecache_folio is replacing instances of pagecache_page. Thanks for 
catching this, I'll fix this change in a v2 of this patch series.

Thanks,
Sidhartha Kumar