Re: [PATCH v9 04/10] mm: split a folio in minimum folio order chunks

[Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>]

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On 9 Jul 2024, at 7:04, Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) wrote:

>>
>> This should be
>>
>> 		if (!folio->mapping) {
>> 			if (folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio))
>> 				count_vm_event(THP_SPLIT_PAGE_FAILED);
>> 			return -EBUSY;
>> 		}
>>
>> Otherwise, a non PMD mappable folio with no mapping will fall through
>> and cause NULL pointer dereference in mapping_min_folio_order().
>
> Ah, of course. I thought I was being "smart" here to avoid another
> nesting. Instead of triple nested ifs, I guess this is better:
>
> int split_folio_to_list(struct folio *folio, struct list_head *list)
> {
>        unsigned int min_order = 0;
>
>        if (folio_test_anon(folio))
>                goto out;
>
>        if (!folio->mapping) {
>                if (folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio))
>                        count_vm_event(THP_SPLIT_PAGE_FAILED);
>                return -EBUSY;
>        }
>
>        min_order = mapping_min_folio_order(folio->mapping);
> out:
>        return split_huge_page_to_list_to_order(&folio->page, list,
>                                                        min_order);
> }
>
> Let me know what you think!

LGTM. Thanks. With this change, feel free to add Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>

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Best Regards,
Yan, Zi

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