We must hold a reference over the call to filemap_release_folio(), otherwise the page cache will put the last reference to the folio before we unlock it, leading to splats like this: BUG: Bad page state in process u8:5 pfn:1ab1f4 page:ffffea0006ac7d00 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x28b1de pfn:0x1ab1f4 flags: 0x17ff80000040001(locked|reclaim|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0xfff) raw: 017ff80000040001 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 0000000000000000 raw: 000000000028b1de 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set It's an error path, so it doesn't see much testing. Reported-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Fixes: a42634a6c07d ("readahead: Use a folio in read_pages()") Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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