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2020-12-15	lib/test_free_pages.c: add basic progress indicators	Geert Uytterhoeven	1	-0/+5
	The test module to check that free_pages() does not leak memory does not provide any feedback whatsoever its state or progress, but may take some time on slow machines. Add the printing of messages upon starting each phase of the test, and upon completion. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201018140445.20972-1-geert@linux-m68k.org Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-10-13	mm/page_alloc.c: fix freeing non-compound pages	Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)	1	-0/+42
	Here is a very rare race which leaks memory: Page P0 is allocated to the page cache. Page P1 is free. Thread A Thread B Thread C find_get_entry(): xas_load() returns P0 Removes P0 from page cache P0 finds its buddy P1 alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 1) returns P0 P0 has refcount 1 page_cache_get_speculative(P0) P0 has refcount 2 __free_pages(P0) P0 has refcount 1 put_page(P0) P1 is not freed Fix this by freeing all the pages in __free_pages() that won't be freed by the call to put_page(). It's usually not a good idea to split a page, but this is a very unlikely scenario. Fixes: e286781d5f2e ("mm: speculative page references") Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200926213919.26642-1-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>