This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mm: hwpoison: call shake_page() after try_to_unmap() for mlocked page to the 4.9-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-hwpoison-call-shake_page-after-try_to_unmap-for-mlocked-page.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Mar 22 14:40:24 CET 2018 From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 14:56:22 -0700 Subject: mm: hwpoison: call shake_page() after try_to_unmap() for mlocked page From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 286c469a988fbaf68e3a97ddf1e6c245c1446968 ] Memory error handler calls try_to_unmap() for error pages in various states. If the error page is a mlocked page, error handling could fail with "still referenced by 1 users" message. This is because the page is linked to and stays in lru cache after the following call chain. try_to_unmap_one page_remove_rmap clear_page_mlock putback_lru_page lru_cache_add memory_failure() calls shake_page() to hanlde the similar issue, but current code doesn't cover because shake_page() is called only before try_to_unmap(). So this patches adds shake_page(). Fixes: 23a003bfd23ea9ea0b7756b920e51f64b284b468 ("mm/madvise: pass return code of memory_failure() to userspace") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170417055948.GM31394@yexl-desktop Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493197841-23986-3-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Chen Gong <gong.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory-failure.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) --- a/mm/memory-failure.c +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -921,6 +921,7 @@ static int hwpoison_user_mappings(struct int ret; int kill = 1, forcekill; struct page *hpage = *hpagep; + bool mlocked = PageMlocked(hpage); /* * Here we are interested only in user-mapped pages, so skip any @@ -985,6 +986,13 @@ static int hwpoison_user_mappings(struct pfn, page_mapcount(hpage)); /* + * try_to_unmap() might put mlocked page in lru cache, so call + * shake_page() again to ensure that it's flushed. + */ + if (mlocked) + shake_page(hpage, 0); + + /* * Now that the dirty bit has been propagated to the * struct page and all unmaps done we can decide if * killing is needed or not. Only kill when the page Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/mm-hwpoison-call-shake_page-after-try_to_unmap-for-mlocked-page.patch