linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.5 173/176] mm/huge_memory.c: use head to check huge zero page

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Date:   Tue,  3 Mar 2020 18:43:57 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Wei Yang <richardw.yang@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.5 173/176] mm/huge_memory.c: use head to check huge zero page

From: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@...ux.intel.com>

commit cb829624867b5ab10bc6a7036d183b1b82bfe9f8 upstream.

The page could be a tail page, if this is the case, this BUG_ON will
never be triggered.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200110032610.26499-1-richardw.yang@linux.intel.com
Fixes: e9b61f19858a ("thp: reintroduce split_huge_page()")

Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@...ux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...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/huge_memory.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2712,7 +2712,7 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page
 	unsigned long flags;
 	pgoff_t end;
 
-	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(is_huge_zero_page(page), page);
+	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(is_huge_zero_page(head), head);
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageCompound(page), page);