[patch 01/15] mm/swap.c:put_pages_list(): reinitialise the page list

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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/swap.c:put_pages_list(): reinitialise the page list

While free_unref_page_list() puts pages onto the CPU local LRU list, it
does not remove them from the list they were passed in on.  That makes the
list_head appear to be non-empty, and would lead to various corruption
problems if we didn't have an assertion that the list was empty.

Reinitialise the list after calling free_unref_page_list() to avoid this
problem.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YYp40A2lNrxaZji8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 988c69f1bc23 ("mm: optimise put_pages_list()")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hyeoncheol Lee <hyc.lee@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/swap.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/mm/swap.c~hitting-bug_on-trap-in-read_pages-mm-optimise-put_pages_list
+++ a/mm/swap.c
@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ void put_pages_list(struct list_head *pa
 	}
 
 	free_unref_page_list(pages);
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(pages);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(put_pages_list);
 
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