Since poisoned page is marked as not-present, the first of the two back-to-back write_pmem() calls can only be made when there is no poison in the range, otherwise kernel Oops. Signed-off-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c index dd2db4905c85..6e395014da5e 100644 --- a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c @@ -187,10 +187,15 @@ static blk_status_t pmem_do_write(struct pmem_device *pmem, * after clear poison. */ flush_dcache_page(page); - write_pmem(pmem_addr, page, page_off, len); - if (unlikely(bad_pmem)) { - rc = pmem_clear_poison(pmem, pmem_off, len); + if (!bad_pmem) { write_pmem(pmem_addr, page, page_off, len); + } else { + rc = pmem_clear_poison(pmem, pmem_off, len); + if (rc == BLK_STS_OK) + write_pmem(pmem_addr, page, page_off, len); + else + pr_warn("%s: failed to clear poison\n", + __func__); } return rc; -- 2.18.4