Re: [PATCH v1] hugetlb: pass head page to remove_hugetlb_page()

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu May 27 2021 - 04:22:39 EST


On Thu 27-05-21 09:47:44, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 08:52:57AM +0900, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> > From: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > When memory_failure() or soft_offline_page() is called on a tail page of
> > some hugetlb page, "BUG: unable to handle page fault" error can be
> > triggered.
> >
> > remove_hugetlb_page() dereferences page->lru, so it's assumed that the
> > page points to a head page, but one of the caller,
> > dissolve_free_huge_page(), provides remove_hugetlb_page() with 'page'
> > which could be a tail page. So pass 'head' to it, instead.
> >
> > Fixes: 6eb4e88a6d27 ("hugetlb: create remove_hugetlb_page() to separate functionality")
> > Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
>
> It is probably worth adding a comment in remove_hugetlb_page() noting
> that we need a head page, so future users do not repeat the same
> mistake.

Ideally this will turn into page folio concept and no comments are
really needed.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs