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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 00:42:20 +0000 (10:42 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thu, 22 May 2014 00:42:20 +0000 (10:42 +1000)
commit4051c4657322f789734c7de1137daaa1dbb88c0e
tree4755c507ff21e39c1defdcccb3e8cdbc5c47f459
parent75ecdf1414fb3aa926bb1a59327e148b0e6fce89
mm/memory-failure.c: fix memory leak by race between poison and unpoison

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>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [2.6.32+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memory-failure.c