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From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au,
	peterz@infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] mm/page_alloc.c: avoid accessing uninitialized pcp page migratetype
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 18:34:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00a73cf9-b2e8-116b-dc9c-fc5e2aacb1a1@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210831134311.GG4128@techsingularity.net>

On 8/31/21 15:43, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 10:10:50PM +0800, 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: 3dcbe270d8ec ("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>
> 
> This fix is fairly important. Take this patch out and send it on its own
> so it gets picked up relatively quickly. It does not belong in a series
> that is mostly cosmetic cleanups.

Also Cc: stable, please.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-31 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-30 14:10 [PATCH 0/6] Cleanups and fixup for page_alloc Miaohe Lin
2021-08-30 14:10 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm/page_alloc.c: remove meaningless VM_BUG_ON() in pindex_to_order() Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 13:34   ` Mel Gorman
2021-08-31 14:05   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-30 14:10 ` [PATCH 2/6] mm/page_alloc.c: simplify the code by using macro K() Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31  8:54   ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2021-08-31 11:08     ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 14:19       ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2021-09-01  7:37         ` Miaohe Lin
2021-09-01  7:46           ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2021-09-01  8:17             ` Miaohe Lin
2021-09-01 21:25           ` David Laight
2021-09-02  6:32             ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 13:35   ` Mel Gorman
2021-08-31 14:07   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-30 14:10 ` [PATCH 3/6] mm/page_alloc.c: remove obsolete comment in free_pcppages_bulk() Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 13:38   ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-01  7:49     ` Miaohe Lin
2021-09-01 15:14       ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-02  6:25         ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-30 14:10 ` [PATCH 4/6] mm/page_alloc.c: use helper function zone_spans_pfn() Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 13:39   ` Mel Gorman
2021-08-31 14:08   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-30 14:10 ` [PATCH 5/6] mm/page_alloc.c: avoid accessing uninitialized pcp page migratetype Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 13:43   ` Mel Gorman
2021-08-31 14:23     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-01  8:02       ` Miaohe Lin
2021-09-01  8:10         ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-01  8:18           ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 16:34     ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2021-09-01  8:04       ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-30 14:10 ` [PATCH 6/6] mm/page_alloc.c: avoid allocating highmem pages via alloc_pages_exact_nid() Miaohe Lin
2021-08-30 14:24   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-31  1:56     ` Miaohe Lin
2021-08-31 16:37       ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-09-01  8:05         ` Miaohe Lin

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