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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 1/2] mm/memory-failure.c: avoid calling invalidate_inode_page() with unexpected pages
On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 01:13:33PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> invalidate_inode_page() can invalidate the pages in the swap cache because
> the check of page->mapping != mapping is removed via Matthew's patch titled
> "mm/truncate: Inline invalidate_complete_page() into its one caller". But
> invalidate_inode_page() is not expected to deal with the pages in the swap
> cache. Also non-lru movable page can reach here too. They're not page cache
> pages. Skip these pages by checking PageSwapCache and PageLRU to fix this
> unexpected issue.

I disagree with this changelog.

invalidate_inode_page() should not be called for pages which are not
in the page cache.

And then the patch shouldn't test PageLRU (which is actually wrong) or
PageSwapCache(). It should simply be:

+ if (!PageHuge(page) && !PageAnon(page))

> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.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 5444a8ef4867..ecf45961f3b6 100644
> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -2178,7 +2178,7 @@ static int __soft_offline_page(struct page *page)
> return 0;
> }
>
> - if (!PageHuge(page))
> + if (!PageHuge(page) && PageLRU(page) && !PageSwapCache(page))
> /*
> * Try to invalidate first. This should work for
> * non dirty unmapped page cache pages.
> --
> 2.23.0
>
>

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