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authorJiang Biao <jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn>2017-11-30 01:11:01 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-11-30 03:40:43 +0100
commitd5dabd633922ac5ee5bcc67748f7defb8b211469 (patch)
tree730e56bdd410584dc90fd8d80f5a9eda322dffc9 /fs/mbcache.c
parentRevert "mm/page-writeback.c: print a warning if the vm dirtiness settings are... (diff)
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fs/mbcache.c: make count_objects() more robust
When running ltp stress test for 7*24 hours, vmscan occasionally emits the following warning continuously: mb_cache_scan+0x0/0x3f0 negative objects to delete nr=-9232265467809300450 ... Tracing shows the freeable(mb_cache_count returns) is -1, which causes the continuous accumulation and overflow of total_scan. This patch makes sure that mb_cache_count() cannot return a negative value, which makes the mbcache shrinker more robust. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1511753419-52328-1-git-send-email-jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: Jiang Biao <jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: <zhong.weidong@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/fs/mbcache.c b/fs/mbcache.c
index d818fd236787..b8b8b9ced9f8 100644
--- a/fs/mbcache.c
+++ b/fs/mbcache.c
@@ -269,6 +269,9 @@ static unsigned long mb_cache_count(struct shrinker *shrink,
struct mb_cache *cache = container_of(shrink, struct mb_cache,
c_shrink);
+ /* Unlikely, but not impossible */
+ if (unlikely(cache->c_entry_count < 0))
+ return 0;
return cache->c_entry_count;
}