linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/6] mm, hwpoison: fix page refcnt leaking in unpoison

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Date:   Thu, 18 Aug 2022 21:00:12 +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 2/6] mm, hwpoison: fix page refcnt leaking in unpoison_memory()

When free_raw_hwp_pages() fails its work, the refcnt of the hugetlb page
would have been incremented if ret > 0. Using put_page() to fix refcnt
leaking in this case.

Fixes: debb6b9c3fdd ("mm, hwpoison: make unpoison aware of raw error info in hwpoisoned hugepage")
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
---
 mm/memory-failure.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 22840cd5fe59..0c5ad7505b99 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -2378,6 +2378,7 @@ int unpoison_memory(unsigned long pfn)
 			count = free_raw_hwp_pages(page, false);
 			if (count == 0) {
 				ret = -EBUSY;
+				put_page(page);
 				goto unlock_mutex;
 			}
 		}
-- 
2.23.0