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[PATCH v3 01/76] mm: list_lru: fix the return value of list_lru_count_one()

From: Muchun Song <hidden>
Date: 2021-09-14 07:33:11
Also in: linux-fsdevel, linux-nfs, lkml
Subsystem: memory management, shrinker, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Morton, Dave Chinner, Linus Torvalds

Since commit 2788cf0c401c ("memcg: reparent list_lrus and free kmemcg_id
on css offline"), ->nr_items can be negative during memory cgroup reparenting.
In this case, list_lru_count_one() returns an unusual and huge value, which
will surprise users. So let it returns zero when ->nr_items is negative.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <redacted>
---
 mm/list_lru.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/list_lru.c b/mm/list_lru.c
index cd58790d0fb3..4962d48d4410 100644
--- a/mm/list_lru.c
+++ b/mm/list_lru.c
@@ -176,13 +176,16 @@ unsigned long list_lru_count_one(struct list_lru *lru,
 {
 	struct list_lru_node *nlru = &lru->node[nid];
 	struct list_lru_one *l;
-	unsigned long count;
+	long count;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	l = list_lru_from_memcg_idx(nlru, memcg_cache_id(memcg));
 	count = READ_ONCE(l->nr_items);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
+	if (unlikely(count < 0))
+		count = 0;
+
 	return count;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(list_lru_count_one);
-- 
2.11.0

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