linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.13 05/99] mm/memory-failure.c: move refcount only in !MF_COUNT

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Date:	Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:52:00 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Chen Gong <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.13 05/99] mm/memory-failure.c: move refcount only in !MF_COUNT_INCREASED

3.13-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>

commit 8d547ff4ac5927245e0833ac18528f939da0ee0e upstream.

mce-test detected a test failure when injecting error to a thp tail
page.  This is because we take page refcount of the tail page in
madvise_hwpoison() while the fix in commit a3e0f9e47d5e
("mm/memory-failure.c: transfer page count from head page to tail page
after split thp") assumes that we always take refcount on the head page.

When a real memory error happens we take refcount on the head page where
memory_failure() is called without MF_COUNT_INCREASED set, so it seems
to me that testing memory error on thp tail page using madvise makes
little sense.

This patch cancels moving refcount in !MF_COUNT_INCREASED for valid
testing.

[akpm@...ux-foundation.org: s/&&/&/]
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Chen Gong <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/memory-failure.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -945,8 +945,10 @@ static int hwpoison_user_mappings(struct
 			 * to it. Similarly, page lock is shifted.
 			 */
 			if (hpage != p) {
-				put_page(hpage);
-				get_page(p);
+				if (!(flags & MF_COUNT_INCREASED)) {
+					put_page(hpage);
+					get_page(p);
+				}
 				lock_page(p);
 				unlock_page(hpage);
 				*hpagep = p;


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