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authorMiaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>2023-06-27 19:28:08 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-08-30 16:23:19 +0200
commit32f71ef627374f9b60a2f630144b3f48db0a139f (patch)
tree783aad98895f7c8541c45a17dfee373a2b35fc06
parent20c2db79f15793216b227784aa78bdb5665b47fa (diff)
mm: memory-failure: fix unexpected return value in soft_offline_page()
[ Upstream commit e2c1ab070fdc81010ec44634838d24fce9ff9e53 ] When page_handle_poison() fails to handle the hugepage or free page in retry path, soft_offline_page() will return 0 while -EBUSY is expected in this case. Consequently the user will think soft_offline_page succeeds while it in fact failed. So the user will not try again later in this case. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230627112808.1275241-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com Fixes: b94e02822deb ("mm,hwpoison: try to narrow window race for free pages") Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--mm/memory-failure.c11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 6375fe9be87b..0c08e803ed42 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -1919,10 +1919,13 @@ retry:
if (ret > 0) {
ret = soft_offline_in_use_page(page);
} else if (ret == 0) {
- if (!page_handle_poison(page, true, false) && try_again) {
- try_again = false;
- flags &= ~MF_COUNT_INCREASED;
- goto retry;
+ if (!page_handle_poison(page, true, false)) {
+ if (try_again) {
+ try_again = false;
+ flags &= ~MF_COUNT_INCREASED;
+ goto retry;
+ }
+ ret = -EBUSY;
}
} else if (ret == -EIO) {
pr_info("%s: %#lx: unknown page type: %lx (%pGP)\n",