Re: [PATCH] mm/page_owner: preserve original free_pid/free_tgid during folio migration

["Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>]

On 9/3/26 11:21, Hongfu Li wrote:
> From: Hongfu Li <lihongfu@kylinos.cn>
> 
> __update_page_owner_free_handle() accepts pid and tgid, but ignores
> them, always storing current->pid and current->tgid.
> 
> __folio_copy_owner() forwards the original free pid/tgid during folio
> migration, yet these values were overwritten by the migrating task.
> 
> Store the passed-in pid/tgid so the migrated folio keeps the original
> free attribution.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hongfu Li <lihongfu@kylinos.cn>

Fixes: ea4b5b33bf8a ("mm,page_owner: update metadata for tail pages")

(not critical enough stable@ imho)

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>

Thanks!

> ---
>  mm/page_owner.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_owner.c b/mm/page_owner.c
> index 3fc37d9b908e..cfc31c92d765 100644
> --- a/mm/page_owner.c
> +++ b/mm/page_owner.c
> @@ -307,8 +307,8 @@ static inline void __update_page_owner_free_handle(struct page *page,
>  			page_owner->free_handle = handle;
>  		}
>  		page_owner->free_ts_nsec = free_ts_nsec;
> -		page_owner->free_pid = current->pid;
> -		page_owner->free_tgid = current->tgid;
> +		page_owner->free_pid = pid;
> +		page_owner->free_tgid = tgid;
>  	}
>  	rcu_read_unlock();
>  }