linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 1/1] mm: fix unproperly folio_put by changing API in read

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Message-ID: <ZgtSfsRxXiTCkejS@casper.infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 01:34:06 +0100
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To: "zhaoyang.huang" <zhaoyang.huang@...soc.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Zhaoyang Huang <huangzhaoyang@...il.com>, steve.kang@...soc.com,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/1] mm: fix unproperly folio_put by changing API in
 read_pages

On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 04:17:34PM +0800, zhaoyang.huang wrote:
> From: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@...soc.com>
> 
> An VM_BUG_ON in step 9 of [1] could happen as the refcnt is dropped
> unproperly during the procedure of read_pages()->readahead_folio->folio_put.
> This is introduced by commit 9fd472af84ab ("mm: improve cleanup when
> ->readpages doesn't process all pages")'.

This patch is no less bullshit than the last time you posted it.
I explained why here:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/ZgQRtQ60mrvOUKXo@casper.infradead.org/