Re: [PATCH v2] mm: page_alloc: move mlocked flag clearance into free_pages_prepare()

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On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 05:09:13PM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2024, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 12:49:28PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > > On Mon, 21 Oct 2024, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > > I don't think there's any need to change your text, but
> > > let me remind us that any "Bad page" report stops that page from being
> > > allocated again (because it's in an undefined, potentially dangerous
> > > state): so does amount to a small memory leak even if otherwise harmless.
> > 
> > It looks like I need to post v3 as soon as I get a publicly available
> > syzkaller report, so I'll add this to the commit log.
> 
> Today is your lucky day :-)

I've been waiting for it for a long time :)
Thanks for forwarding it my way!

I'm still not sure what the conclusion of our discussion was. My understanding
is that my fix is not that pretty, but there are no better immediate ideas, only
long-term improvement projects. Does it matches everybody else's understanding?

If so, I'll prepare a v3 with an updated link. Otherwise, please, let me know.

Thanks!




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