This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm: memory-failure: fix unexpected return value in soft_offline_page()
to the 6.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-memory-failure-fix-unexpected-return-value-in-soft_offline_page.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From e2c1ab070fdc81010ec44634838d24fce9ff9e53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 19:28:08 +0800
Subject: mm: memory-failure: fix unexpected return value in soft_offline_page()
From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit e2c1ab070fdc81010ec44634838d24fce9ff9e53 upstream.
When page_handle_poison() fails to handle the hugepage or free page in
retry path, soft_offline_page() will return 0 while -EBUSY is expected in
this case.
Consequently the user will think soft_offline_page succeeds while it in
fact failed. So the user will not try again later in this case.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230627112808.1275241-1-linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: b94e02822deb ("mm,hwpoison: try to narrow window race for free pages")
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory-failure.c | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -2744,10 +2744,13 @@ retry:
if (ret > 0) {
ret = soft_offline_in_use_page(page);
} else if (ret == 0) {
- if (!page_handle_poison(page, true, false) && try_again) {
- try_again = false;
- flags &= ~MF_COUNT_INCREASED;
- goto retry;
+ if (!page_handle_poison(page, true, false)) {
+ if (try_again) {
+ try_again = false;
+ flags &= ~MF_COUNT_INCREASED;
+ goto retry;
+ }
+ ret = -EBUSY;
}
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-6.4/mm-memory-failure-fix-unexpected-return-value-in-soft_offline_page.patch
