linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/4] mm/memory-failure.c: fix wrong user reference report

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Message-ID: <20220228140245.24552-3-linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Date:   Mon, 28 Feb 2022 22:02:43 +0800
From:   Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To:     <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <naoya.horiguchi@....com>
CC:     <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] mm/memory-failure.c: fix wrong user reference report

The dirty swapcache page is still residing in the swap cache after it's
hwpoisoned. So there is always one extra refcount for swap cache.

Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
---
 mm/memory-failure.c | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 0d7c58340a98..5f9503573263 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -984,7 +984,6 @@ static int me_pagecache_dirty(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p)
 static int me_swapcache_dirty(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p)
 {
 	int ret;
-	bool extra_pins = false;
 
 	ClearPageDirty(p);
 	/* Trigger EIO in shmem: */
@@ -993,10 +992,7 @@ static int me_swapcache_dirty(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p)
 	ret = delete_from_lru_cache(p) ? MF_FAILED : MF_DELAYED;
 	unlock_page(p);
 
-	if (ret == MF_DELAYED)
-		extra_pins = true;
-
-	if (has_extra_refcount(ps, p, extra_pins))
+	if (has_extra_refcount(ps, p, true))
 		ret = MF_FAILED;
 
 	return ret;
-- 
2.23.0