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Commit bdc544a8 authored by Miaohe Lin's avatar Miaohe Lin Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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mm: memory-failure: fix unexpected return value in soft_offline_page()

commit e2c1ab07 upstream.

When page_handle_poison() fails to handle the hugepage or free page in
retry path, soft_offline_page() will return 0 while -EBUSY is expected in
this case.

Consequently the user will think soft_offline_page succeeds while it in
fact failed.  So the user will not try again later in this case.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230627112808.1275241-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Fixes: b94e0282

 ("mm,hwpoison: try to narrow window race for free pages")
Signed-off-by: default avatarMiaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Acked-by: default avatarNaoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 07fad410
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