+ mm-hwpoison-fix-page-refcount-of-unkown-non-lru-page.patch added to -mm tree

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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

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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

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