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)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Mon, 9 Jun 2014 12:29:15 +0000 (13:29 +0100)
commit29bd81fa3d24a1ef43cfa4e253d76a64de0f7a4b
treeaeb804b189a6fe5c93616197935fbf09a5007760
parentd60608770339d22933f0a6f1b859880799c9365d
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>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: s/num_poisoned_pages/bad_mce_pages/]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
mm/memory-failure.c