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Hugh Dickins authored
The radix_tree_deref_retry() case in find_get_pages() has a strange little excrescence, not seen in the other gang lookups: it looks like the start of an abandoned attempt to guarantee forward progress in a case that cannot arise. ret should always be 0 here: if it isn't, then going back to restart will leak references to pages already gotten. There used to be a comment saying nr_found is necessarily 1 here: that's not quite true, but the radix_tree_deref_retry() case is peculiar to the entry at index 0, when we race with it being moved out of the radix_tree root or back. Remove the worrisome two lines, add a brief comment here and in find_get_pages_contig() and find_get_pages_tag(), and a WARN_ON in find_get_pages() should it ever be seen elsewhere than at 0. Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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