linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] mm/page_alloc.c: avoid accessing uninitialized pcp page migratetype

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Date:   Tue, 31 Aug 2021 14:43:11 +0100
From:   Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:     Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, vbabka@...e.cz, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
        peterz@...radead.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] mm/page_alloc.c: avoid accessing uninitialized pcp
 page migratetype

On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 10:10:50PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> If it's not prepared to free unref page, the pcp page migratetype is
> unset. Thus We will get rubbish from get_pcppage_migratetype() and
> might list_del &page->lru again after it's already deleted from the
> list leading to grumble about data corruption.
> 
> Fixes: 3dcbe270d8ec ("mm/page_alloc: avoid conflating IRQs disabled with zone->lock")
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>

This fix is fairly important. Take this patch out and send it on its own
so it gets picked up relatively quickly. It does not belong in a series
that is mostly cosmetic cleanups.


-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs