The pass/fail of soft offline should be judged by checking whether the
raw error page was finally contained or not (i.e. the result of
set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page()), but current code do not work like that.
So this patch is suggesting to fix it.
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horigu...@ah.jp.nec.com>
Fixes: 6bc9b56433b76 ("mm: fix race on soft-offlining")
Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> # v4.19+
---
mm/memory-failure.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git v5.2-rc3/mm/memory-failure.c v5.2-rc3_patched/mm/memory-failure.c
index fc8b517..7ea485e 100644
--- v5.2-rc3/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ v5.2-rc3_patched/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -1733,6 +1733,8 @@ static int soft_offline_huge_page(struct page *page, int
flags)
if (!ret) {
if (set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page(page))
num_poisoned_pages_inc();
+ else
+ ret = -EBUSY;
}
}
return ret;
--
2.7.0
