The page has just been allocated, so its refcount is 1. free_unref_page() is for use on pages which have a zero refcount. Use __free_page() like the other implementations of pte_alloc_one(). Fixes: 1ae9ae5f7df7 ("sparc: handle pgtable_page_ctor() fail") Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c b/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c index 96edf64d4fb3..182bb7bdaa0a 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c +++ b/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c @@ -2894,7 +2894,7 @@ pgtable_t pte_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm) if (!page) return NULL; if (!pgtable_pte_page_ctor(page)) { - free_unref_page(page); + __free_page(page); return NULL; } return (pte_t *) page_address(page); -- 2.29.2