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-rw-r--r--mm/madvise.c16
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 4d3c922ea1a1..972a9eaa898b 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -631,11 +631,13 @@ static int madvise_inject_error(int behavior,
for (; start < end; start += PAGE_SIZE << order) {
+ unsigned long pfn;
int ret;
ret = get_user_pages_fast(start, 1, 0, &page);
if (ret != 1)
return ret;
+ pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
/*
* When soft offlining hugepages, after migrating the page
@@ -651,17 +653,25 @@ static int madvise_inject_error(int behavior,
if (behavior == MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE) {
pr_info("Soft offlining pfn %#lx at process virtual address %#lx\n",
- page_to_pfn(page), start);
+ pfn, start);
ret = soft_offline_page(page, MF_COUNT_INCREASED);
if (ret)
return ret;
continue;
}
+
pr_info("Injecting memory failure for pfn %#lx at process virtual address %#lx\n",
- page_to_pfn(page), start);
+ pfn, start);
- ret = memory_failure(page_to_pfn(page), MF_COUNT_INCREASED);
+ /*
+ * Drop the page reference taken by get_user_pages_fast(). In
+ * the absence of MF_COUNT_INCREASED the memory_failure()
+ * routine is responsible for pinning the page to prevent it
+ * from being released back to the page allocator.
+ */
+ put_page(page);
+ ret = memory_failure(pfn, 0);
if (ret)
return ret;
}