Re: [PATCH v2 09/11] mm/migration: fix potential page refcounts leak in migrate_pages

From: Muchun Song
Date: Fri Mar 18 2022 - 04:27:19 EST


On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 10:41 PM Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In -ENOMEM case, there might be some subpages of fail-to-migrate THPs
> left in thp_split_pages list. We should move them back to migration
> list so that they could be put back to the right list by the caller
> otherwise the page refcnt will be leaked here. Also adjust nr_failed
> and nr_thp_failed accordingly to make vm events account more accurate.
>
> Fixes: b5bade978e9b ("mm: migrate: fix the return value of migrate_pages()")
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>