This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled hwpoison, hugetlb: lock_page/unlock_page does not match for handling a free hugepage to the 3.14-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: hwpoison-hugetlb-lock_page-unlock_page-does-not-match-for-handling-a-free-hugepage.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b985194c8c0a130ed155b71662e39f7eaea4876f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chen Yucong <slaoub@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 11:54:15 -0700 Subject: hwpoison, hugetlb: lock_page/unlock_page does not match for handling a free hugepage From: Chen Yucong <slaoub@xxxxxxxxx> commit b985194c8c0a130ed155b71662e39f7eaea4876f upstream. For handling a free hugepage in memory failure, the race will happen if another thread hwpoisoned this hugepage concurrently. So we need to check PageHWPoison instead of !PageHWPoison. If hwpoison_filter(p) returns true or a race happens, then we need to unlock_page(hpage). Signed-off-by: Chen Yucong <slaoub@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory-failure.c | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memory-failure.c +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -1085,15 +1085,16 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, in return 0; } else if (PageHuge(hpage)) { /* - * Check "just unpoisoned", "filter hit", and - * "race with other subpage." + * Check "filter hit" and "race with other subpage." */ lock_page(hpage); - if (!PageHWPoison(hpage) - || (hwpoison_filter(p) && TestClearPageHWPoison(p)) - || (p != hpage && TestSetPageHWPoison(hpage))) { - atomic_long_sub(nr_pages, &num_poisoned_pages); - return 0; + if (PageHWPoison(hpage)) { + if ((hwpoison_filter(p) && TestClearPageHWPoison(p)) + || (p != hpage && TestSetPageHWPoison(hpage))) { + atomic_long_sub(nr_pages, &num_poisoned_pages); + unlock_page(hpage); + return 0; + } } set_page_hwpoison_huge_page(hpage); res = dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page(hpage); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from slaoub@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/hwpoison-hugetlb-lock_page-unlock_page-does-not-match-for-handling-a-free-hugepage.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html