xfs: clear _XBF_PAGES from buffers when readahead page

If we try to allocate memory pages to back an xfs_buf that we're trying
to read, it's possible that we'll be so short on memory that the page
allocation fails.  For a blocking read we'll just wait, but for
readahead we simply dump all the pages we've collected so far.

Unfortunately, after dumping the pages we neglect to clear the
_XBF_PAGES state, which means that the subsequent call to xfs_buf_free
thinks that b_pages still points to pages we own.  It then double-frees
the b_pages pages.

This results in screaming about negative page refcounts from the memory
manager, which xfs oughtn't be triggering.  To reproduce this case,
mount a filesystem where the size of the inodes far outweighs the
availalble memory (a ~500M inode filesystem on a VM with 300MB memory
did the trick here) and run bulkstat in parallel with other memory
eating processes to put a huge load on the system.  The "check summary"
phase of xfs_scrub also works for this purpose.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
index 7f0a01f7b592d20932649d1f8a705a836d86ca02..ac3b4db519df8ee5c03fc759295028d6316f474e 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
@@ -422,6 +422,7 @@ retry:
 out_free_pages:
        for (i = 0; i < bp->b_page_count; i++)
                __free_page(bp->b_pages[i]);
+       bp->b_flags &= ~_XBF_PAGES;
        return error;
 }