From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> When a hwpoison page is locked it could change state due to parallel modifications. Check after the lock if the page is still the same compound page. [v2: Removed earlier non LRU check which should be already covered elsewhere] Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory-failure.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c index cd8989c..99e5077 100644 --- a/mm/memory-failure.c +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -1168,6 +1168,16 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int trapno, int flags) lock_page(hpage); /* + * The page could have changed compound pages during the locking. + * If this happens just bail out. + */ + if (compound_head(p) != hpage) { + action_result(pfn, "different compound page after locking", IGNORED); + res = -EBUSY; + goto out; + } + + /* * We use page flags to determine what action should be taken, but * the flags can be modified by the error containment action. One * example is an mlocked page, where PG_mlocked is cleared by -- 1.9.3 -- 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>