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mm/memory-failure.c: fix memory leak by race between poison and unpoison
authorNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Thu, 22 May 2014 18:54:21 +0000 (11:54 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 11 Jun 2014 19:03:22 +0000 (12:03 -0700)
commit53e8565ac009becf0e27c2c77980426f1b40db09
tree8fb5080e5d254d1b75ba3db2e9ef206fbb70f2fa
parent509a6ce860fc71a16cdeed25b131c26d4917a0a6
mm/memory-failure.c: fix memory leak by race between poison and unpoison

commit 3e030ecc0fc7de10fd0da10c1c19939872a31717 upstream.

When a memory error happens on an in-use page or (free and in-use)
hugepage, the victim page is isolated with its refcount set to one.

When you try to unpoison it later, unpoison_memory() calls put_page()
for it twice in order to bring the page back to free page pool (buddy or
free hugepage list).  However, if another memory error occurs on the
page which we are unpoisoning, memory_failure() returns without
releasing the refcount which was incremented in the same call at first,
which results in memory leak and unconsistent num_poisoned_pages
statistics.  This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/memory-failure.c