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-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index a56f2b9df5a0..1fd41b91a1a8 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5054,9 +5054,12 @@ static inline void free_the_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
void __free_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
{
+ /* get PageHead before we drop reference */
+ int head = PageHead(page);
+
if (put_page_testzero(page))
free_the_page(page, order);
- else if (!PageHead(page))
+ else if (!head)
while (order-- > 0)
free_the_page(page + (1 << order), order);
}