Hello Michael S. Tsirkin, The patch 0b5ffdb4f7c6: "balloon: fix page list locking" from Jan 1, 2016, leads to the following static checker warning: mm/balloon_compaction.c:116 balloon_page_dequeue() error: double unlock 'spin_lock:&b_dev_info->pages_lock' mm/balloon_compaction.c 101 spin_lock_irqsave(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags); 102 balloon_page_delete(page); 103 __count_vm_event(BALLOON_DEFLATE); 104 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Unlock. 105 unlock_page(page); 106 put_page(page); 107 dequeued_page = true; 108 break; 109 } 110 put_page(page); 111 spin_lock_irqsave(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags); 112 } 113 114 /* re-add remaining entries */ 115 list_splice(&processed, &b_dev_info->pages); 116 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Second unlock. 117 118 if (!dequeued_page) { regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>