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[PATCH] mm: compound release fix

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Compound pages on SMP systems can now often be freed from pagetables via
the release_pages path.  This uses put_page_testzero which does not handle
compound pages at all.  Releasing constituent pages from process mappings
decrements their count to a large negative number and leaks the reference
at the head page - net result is a memory leak.

The problem was hidden because the debug check in put_page_testzero itself
actually did take compound pages into consideration.

Fix the bug and the debug check.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Nick Piggin 2006-02-07 12:58:52 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 99f6d61bda
commit 8519fb30e4
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@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ struct page {
*/
#define put_page_testzero(p) \
({ \
BUG_ON(page_count(p) == 0); \
BUG_ON(atomic_read(&(p)->_count) == -1);\
atomic_add_negative(-1, &(p)->_count); \
})