Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) b653db7735 mm: Clear page->private when splitting or migrating a page ...

In our efforts to remove uses of PG_private, we have found folios with
the private flag clear and folio->private not-NULL.  That is the root
cause behind 642d51fb07 ("ceph: check folio PG_private bit instead
of folio->private").  It can also affect a few other filesystems that
haven't yet reported a problem.

compaction_alloc() can return a page with uninitialised page->private,
and rather than checking all the callers of migrate_pages(), just zero
page->private after calling get_new_page().  Similarly, the tail pages
from split_huge_page() may also have an uninitialised page->private.

Reported-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>

2022-06-23 12:21:44 -04:00

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