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SubjectRe: [PATCH 12/16] mm/migration: fix potential page refcounts leak in migrate_pages
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On 4 Mar 2022, at 4:34, Miaohe Lin wrote:

> In -ENOMEM case, there might be some subpages of fail-to-migrate THPs
> left in thp_split_pages list. We should move them back to migration
> list so that they could be put back to the right list by the caller
> otherwise the page refcnt will be leaked here. Also adjust nr_failed
> and nr_thp_failed accordingly to make vm events account more accurate.
>
> Fixes: b5bade978e9b ("mm: migrate: fix the return value of migrate_pages()")
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
> ---
> mm/migrate.c | 9 +++++++++
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> index e0db06927f02..6c2dfed2ddb8 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -1422,6 +1422,15 @@ int migrate_pages(struct list_head *from, new_page_t get_new_page,
> }
>
> nr_failed_pages += nr_subpages;
> + /*
> + * There might be some subpages of fail-to-migrate THPs
> + * left in thp_split_pages list. Move them back to migration
> + * list so that they could be put back to the right list by
> + * the caller otherwise the page refcnt will be leaked.
> + */
> + list_splice_init(&thp_split_pages, from);
> + nr_failed += retry;
> + nr_thp_failed += thp_retry;
> goto out;
> case -EAGAIN:
> if (is_thp)
> --
> 2.23.0

LGTM. Thanks. Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>


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Best Regards,
Yan, Zi
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