mm/hwpoison: fix PageHWPoison test/set race

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There is a race between madvise_hwpoison path and memory_failure:

 CPU0					CPU1

madvise_hwpoison
get_user_pages_fast
PageHWPoison check (false)
					memory_failure
					TestSetPageHWPoison
soft_offline_page
PageHWPoison check (true)
return -EBUSY (without put_page)

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Suggested-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Wanpeng Li 2015-09-08 15:03:13 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds

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