Re: hugetlb oops on 3.1.0-rc8-devel

From: David Rientjes
Date: Tue Dec 06 2011 - 15:16:18 EST


On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> > --- a/mm/hugetlb.c      Sat Aug 13 11:45:14 2011
> > +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c      Wed Nov  2 20:12:00 2011
> > @@ -2422,6 +2422,8 @@ retry_avoidcopy:
> >         * anon_vma prepared.
> >         */
> >        if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma))) {
> > +               page_cache_release(new_page);
> > +               page_cache_release(old_page);
> >                /* Caller expects lock to be held */
> >                spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> >                return VM_FAULT_OOM;
> >
>
> I'll patch it in. My test case took over a week to hit it once, so I
> can't guarantee I'll spot it.
>

This patch was merged and released in 3.2-rc3 as ea4039a34c4c ("hugetlb:
release pages in the error path of hugetlb_cow()"), Andy is this issue
fixed for you?