linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/6] mm, hwpoison: fix extra put_page() in soft_offline

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Date:   Thu, 18 Aug 2022 21:00:13 +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 3/6] mm, hwpoison: fix extra put_page() in soft_offline_page()

When hwpoison_filter() refuses to soft offline a page, the page refcnt
incremented previously by MF_COUNT_INCREASED would have been consumed
via get_hwpoison_page() if ret <= 0. So the put_ref_page() here will
put the extra one. Remove it to fix the issue.

Fixes: 9113eaf331bf ("mm/memory-failure.c: add hwpoison_filter for soft offline")
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
---
 mm/memory-failure.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 0c5ad7505b99..7023c3d81273 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -2591,8 +2591,6 @@ int soft_offline_page(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
 	if (hwpoison_filter(page)) {
 		if (ret > 0)
 			put_page(page);
-		else
-			put_ref_page(ref_page);
 
 		mutex_unlock(&mf_mutex);
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-- 
2.23.0