linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH stable-5.10] mm/memory-failure: fix an incorrect use of tail pages

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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 03:57:06 +0000
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@...wei.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH stable-5.10] mm/memory-failure: fix an incorrect use of
 tail pages

On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 11:36:49AM +0800, Liu Shixin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After backport commit c79c5a0a00a9 ("mm/memory-failure: check the mapcount of the precise page"),
> 
> I got an error message as written on the patch. The problem can be fixed by the patch or just revert.
> 
> Now I prefer to revert because I think it is related to folio and no impact in stable, or maybe I'm wrong.

I checked out what is going wrong here, and Liu Shixin is correct.

Commit c79c5a0a00a9 was incorrectly backported to v5.10 and
commit 70168fdc743b changees the page passed to try_to_unmap().
It now passes the tail page, and should always have passed hpage.
Please apply the patch below to v5.10 (and any other trees that
c79c5a0a00a9 got backported to).

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> On 2024/3/7 20:48, Liu Shixin wrote:
> > When backport commit c79c5a0a00a9 to 5.10-stable, there is a mistake change.
> > The head page instead of tail page should be passed to try_to_unmap(),
> > otherwise unmap will failed as follows.
> >
> >  Memory failure: 0x121c10: failed to unmap page (mapcount=1)
> >  Memory failure: 0x121c10: recovery action for unmapping failed page: Ignored
> >
> > Fixes: 70168fdc743b ("mm/memory-failure: check the mapcount of the precise page")
> > Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@...wei.com>
> > ---
> >  mm/memory-failure.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
> > index f320ff02cc19..dba2936292cf 100644
> > --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> > +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> > @@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@ static bool hwpoison_user_mappings(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn,
> >  				unmap_success = false;
> >  			}
> >  		} else {
> > -			unmap_success = try_to_unmap(p, ttu);
> > +			unmap_success = try_to_unmap(hpage, ttu);
> >  		}
> >  	}
> >  	if (!unmap_success)
> 
>