mm: move call to compound_head() in release_pages()
The function is_huge_zero_page() doesn't call compound_head() to make sure the page pointer is a head page. The call to is_huge_zero_page() in release_pages() is made before compound_head() is called so the test would fail if release_pages() was called with a tail page of the huge_zero_page and put_page_testzero() would be called releasing the page. This is unlikely to be happening in normal use or we would be seeing all sorts of process data corruption when accessing a THP zero page. Looking at other places where is_huge_zero_page() is called, all seem to only pass a head page so I think the right solution is to move the call to compound_head() in release_pages() to a point before calling is_huge_zero_page(). Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200917173938.16420-1-rcampbell@nvidia.comSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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