The patch below does not apply to the 3.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 036138080a4376e5f3e5d0cca8ac99084c5cf06e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 15:34:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] mm/hwpoison: fix fail isolate hugetlbfs page w/ refcount held
Hugetlbfs pages will get a refcount in get_any_page() or
madvise_hwpoison() if soft offlining through madvise. The refcount which
is held by the soft offline path should be released if we fail to isolate
hugetlbfs pages.
Fix it by reducing the refcount for both isolation success and failure.
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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 81c20a7c9fa7..dba52ee31bd4 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -1569,13 +1569,12 @@ static int soft_offline_huge_page(struct page *page, int flags)
unlock_page(hpage);
ret = isolate_huge_page(hpage, &pagelist);
- if (ret) {
- /*
- * get_any_page() and isolate_huge_page() takes a refcount each,
- * so need to drop one here.
- */
- put_page(hpage);
- } else {
+ /*
+ * get_any_page() and isolate_huge_page() takes a refcount each,
+ * so need to drop one here.
+ */
+ put_page(hpage);
+ if (!ret) {
pr_info("soft offline: %#lx hugepage failed to isolate\n", pfn);
return -EBUSY;
}
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