[PATCH 6.6 43/48] mm/readahead: do not allow order-1 folio

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

6.6-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>

commit ec056cef76a525706601b32048f174f9bea72c7c upstream.

The THP machinery does not support order-1 folios because it requires meta
data spanning the first 3 `struct page`s.  So order-2 is the smallest
large folio that we can safely create.

There was a theoretical bug whereby if ra->size was 2 or 3 pages (due to
the device-specific bdi->ra_pages being set that way), we could end up
with order = 1.  Fix this by unconditionally checking if the preferred
order is 1 and if so, set it to 0.  Previously this was done in a few
specific places, but with this refactoring it is done just once,
unconditionally, at the end of the calculation.

This is a theoretical bug found during review of the code; I have no
evidence to suggest this manifests in the real world (I expect all
device-specific ra_pages values are much bigger than 3).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231201161045.3962614-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 mm/readahead.c |   14 ++++++--------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/readahead.c
+++ b/mm/readahead.c
@@ -514,16 +514,14 @@ void page_cache_ra_order(struct readahea
 		unsigned int order = new_order;
 
 		/* Align with smaller pages if needed */
-		if (index & ((1UL << order) - 1)) {
+		if (index & ((1UL << order) - 1))
 			order = __ffs(index);
-			if (order == 1)
-				order = 0;
-		}
 		/* Don't allocate pages past EOF */
-		while (index + (1UL << order) - 1 > limit) {
-			if (--order == 1)
-				order = 0;
-		}
+		while (index + (1UL << order) - 1 > limit)
+			order--;
+		/* THP machinery does not support order-1 */
+		if (order == 1)
+			order = 0;
 		err = ra_alloc_folio(ractl, index, mark, order, gfp);
 		if (err)
 			break;