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Naoya Horiguchitorvalds
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mm: hwpoison: drop lru_add_drain_all() in __soft_offline_page()
A race condition starts to be visible in recent mmotm, where a PG_hwpoison flag is set on a migration source page *before* it's back in buddy page poo= l. This is problematic because no page flag is supposed to be set when freeing (see __free_one_page().) So the user-visible effect of this race is that it could trigger the BUG_ON() when soft-offlining is called. The root cause is that we call lru_add_drain_all() to make sure that the page is in buddy, but that doesn't work because this function just schedule= s a work item and doesn't wait its completion. drain_all_pages() does drainin= g directly, so simply dropping lru_add_drain_all() solves this problem. Fixes: f15bdfa ("mm/memory-failure.c: fix memory leak in successful soft offlining") Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]> Cc: Chen Gong <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> [3.11+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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@@ -1646,8 +1646,6 @@ static int __soft_offline_page(struct page *page, int flags)
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* source page should be freed back to buddy before
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* setting PG_hwpoison.
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*/
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if (!is_free_buddy_page(page))
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lru_add_drain_all();
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if (!is_free_buddy_page(page))
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drain_all_pages(page_zone(page));
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SetPageHWPoison(page);

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