The patch titled Subject: mm/hwpoison: fix page refcount of unkown non LRU page has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-hwpoison-fix-page-refcount-of-unkown-non-lru-page.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-hwpoison-fix-page-refcount-of-unkown-non-lru-page.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-hwpoison-fix-page-refcount-of-unkown-non-lru-page.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/hwpoison: fix page refcount of unkown non LRU page After trying to drain pages from pagevec/pageset, we try to get reference count of the page again, however, the reference count of the page is not reduced if the page is still not on LRU list. Fix it by adding the put_page() to drop the page reference which is from __get_any_page(). Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [3.9+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory-failure.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN mm/memory-failure.c~mm-hwpoison-fix-page-refcount-of-unkown-non-lru-page mm/memory-failure.c --- a/mm/memory-failure.c~mm-hwpoison-fix-page-refcount-of-unkown-non-lru-page +++ a/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -1538,6 +1538,8 @@ static int get_any_page(struct page *pag */ ret = __get_any_page(page, pfn, 0); if (!PageLRU(page)) { + /* Drop page reference which is from __get_any_page() */ + put_page(page); pr_info("soft_offline: %#lx: unknown non LRU page type %lx\n", pfn, page->flags); return -EIO; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx are mm-hwpoison-fix-page-refcount-of-unkown-non-lru-page.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html