Commit acd640b8 authored by Andrea Arcangeli's avatar Andrea Arcangeli Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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mm: vmscan: do not use page_count without a page pin



commit: d179e84b upstream

It is unsafe to run page_count during the physical pfn scan because
compound_head could trip on a dangling pointer when reading
page->first_page if the compound page is being freed by another CPU.

[mgorman@suse.de: split out patch]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 16d266cc
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