mm: soft-offline: return -EBUSY if set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page() fails
commit b38e5962 upstream. The pass/fail of soft offline should be judged by checking whether the raw error page was finally contained or not (i.e. the result of set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page()), but current code do not work like that. It might lead us to misjudge the test result when set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page() fails. Without this fix, there are cases where madvise(MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE) may not offline the original page and will not return an error. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1560154686-18497-2-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.comSigned-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Fixes: 6bc9b564 ("mm: fix race on soft-offlining") Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Xishi Qiu <xishi.qiuxishi@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: "Chen, Jerry T" <jerry.t.chen@intel.com> Cc: "Zhuo, Qiuxu" <qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.19+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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