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authorNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>2015-04-15 16:13:17 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-04-15 16:35:17 -0700
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mm/page-writeback: check-before-clear PageReclaim
With the page flag sanitization patchset, an invalid usage of ClearPageReclaim() is detected in set_page_dirty(). This can be called from __unmap_hugepage_range(), so let's check PageReclaim() before trying to clear it to avoid the misuse. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 0372411f38fc..5daf5568b9e1 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2228,7 +2228,8 @@ int set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
* it will confuse readahead and make it restart the size rampup
* process. But it's a trivial problem.
*/
- ClearPageReclaim(page);
+ if (PageReclaim(page))
+ ClearPageReclaim(page);
#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
if (!spd)
spd = __set_page_dirty_buffers;