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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] mm/page_alloc.c: avoid accessing uninitialized pcp page migratetype
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On 02.09.21 13:54, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> If it's not prepared to free unref page, the pcp page migratetype is
> unset. Thus We will get rubbish from get_pcppage_migratetype() and
> might list_del &page->lru again after it's already deleted from the
> list leading to grumble about data corruption.
>
> Fixes: df1acc856923 ("mm/page_alloc: avoid conflating IRQs disabled with zone->lock")
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> ---
> mm/page_alloc.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 9c09dcb24149..a3c6acafa478 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -3420,8 +3420,10 @@ void free_unref_page_list(struct list_head *list)
> /* Prepare pages for freeing */
> list_for_each_entry_safe(page, next, list, lru) {
> pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
> - if (!free_unref_page_prepare(page, pfn, 0))
> + if (!free_unref_page_prepare(page, pfn, 0)) {
> list_del(&page->lru);
> + continue;
> + }
>
> /*
> * Free isolated pages directly to the allocator, see
>

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

--
Thanks,

David / dhildenb

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