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Commit 1a87aa03 authored by Henry Burns's avatar Henry Burns Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/zsmalloc.c: migration can leave pages in ZS_EMPTY indefinitely

In zs_page_migrate() we call putback_zspage() after we have finished
migrating all pages in this zspage.  However, the return value is
ignored.  If a zs_free() races in between zs_page_isolate() and
zs_page_migrate(), freeing the last object in the zspage,
putback_zspage() will leave the page in ZS_EMPTY for potentially an
unbounded amount of time.

To fix this, we need to do the same thing as zs_page_putback() does:
schedule free_work to occur.

To avoid duplicated code, move the sequence to a new
putback_zspage_deferred() function which both zs_page_migrate() and
zs_page_putback() call.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190809181751.219326-1-henryburns@google.com
Fixes: 48b4800a

 ("zsmalloc: page migration support")
Signed-off-by: default avatarHenry Burns <henryburns@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Henry Burns <henrywolfeburns@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Adams <jwadams@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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