From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 23:58:50 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: mm: check_new_page_bad() directly returns in __PG_HWPOISON case
X-Git-Tag: v4.7-rc1~89^2~112
X-Git-Url: https://repo.jachan.dev/linux.git/commitdiff_plain/e570f56cccd21

mm: check_new_page_bad() directly returns in __PG_HWPOISON case

Currently we check page->flags twice for "HWPoisoned" case of
check_new_page_bad(), which can cause a race with unpoisoning.

This race unnecessarily taints kernel with "BUG: Bad page state".
check_new_page_bad() is the only caller of bad_page() which is
interested in __PG_HWPOISON, so let's move the hwpoison related code in
bad_page() to it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160518100949.GA17299@hori1.linux.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 383b14b4f61d..f8f3bfc435ee 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -522,12 +522,6 @@ static void bad_page(struct page *page, const char *reason,
 	static unsigned long nr_shown;
 	static unsigned long nr_unshown;
 
-	/* Don't complain about poisoned pages */
-	if (PageHWPoison(page)) {
-		page_mapcount_reset(page); /* remove PageBuddy */
-		return;
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * Allow a burst of 60 reports, then keep quiet for that minute;
 	 * or allow a steady drip of one report per second.
@@ -1654,6 +1648,9 @@ static void check_new_page_bad(struct page *page)
 	if (unlikely(page->flags & __PG_HWPOISON)) {
 		bad_reason = "HWPoisoned (hardware-corrupted)";
 		bad_flags = __PG_HWPOISON;
+		/* Don't complain about hwpoisoned pages */
+		page_mapcount_reset(page); /* remove PageBuddy */
+		return;
 	}
 	if (unlikely(page->flags & PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP)) {
 		bad_reason = "PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP flag set";