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mm: check_new_page_bad() directly returns in __PG_HWPOISON case
authorNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Fri, 20 May 2016 23:58:50 +0000 (16:58 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 21 May 2016 00:58:30 +0000 (17:58 -0700)
commite570f56cccd215db68e50870ee74b7d9c0022109
tree0db14373c0f65bcc7360995920b8ed0e46a0d5de
parent29b52de182acf50f85a8284ad39104d84c9bbf57
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>
mm/page_alloc.c