Dear Naoya,
Thank you for your kind reply.
You are right.The current code is ok and I am sorry for wasting your time.

Best Regards.


On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 3:47 PM Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 03:00:09PM +0800, Yongkai Wu wrote:
> > when isolate_huge_page() return false,it won't takes a refcount of page,
> > if we call put_hwpoison_page() in that case,we may hit the
> VM_BUG_ON_PAGE!
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yongkai Wu <nic_w@163.com>
> > ---
> >  mm/memory-failure.c | 13 +++++++------
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
> > index 0cd3de3..ed09f56 100644
> > --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> > +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> > @@ -1699,12 +1699,13 @@ static int soft_offline_huge_page(struct page
> *page,
> > int flags)
> >   unlock_page(hpage);
> >
> >   ret = isolate_huge_page(hpage, &pagelist);
> > - /*
> > - * get_any_page() and isolate_huge_page() takes a refcount each,
> > - * so need to drop one here.
> > - */
> > - put_hwpoison_page(hpage);
> > - if (!ret) {
> > + if (ret) {
> > +        /*
> > +          * get_any_page() and isolate_huge_page() takes a refcount
> each,
> > +          * so need to drop one here.
> > +        */
> > + put_hwpoison_page(hpage);
> > + } else {
>
> Hi Yongkai,
>
> Although the current code might look odd, it's OK. We have to release
> one refcount whether this isolate_huge_page() succeeds or not, because
> the put_hwpoison_page() is cancelling the refcount from get_any_page()
> which always succeeds when we enter soft_offline_huge_page().
>
> Let's consider that the isolate_huge_page() fails with your patch applied,
> then the refcount taken by get_any_page() is never released after returning
> from soft_offline_page(). That will lead to memory leak.
>
> I think that current code comment doesn't explaing it well, so if you
> like, you can fix the comment.  (If you do that, please check coding style.
> scripts/checkpatch.pl will help you.)
>
> Thanks,
> Naoya Horiguchi
>