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    fscache: Fix the default for fscache_maybe_release_page() · 2b9b2002
    David Howells authored
    commit 98801506 upstream.
    
    Fix the default for fscache_maybe_release_page() for when the cookie isn't
    valid or the page isn't cached.  It mustn't return false as that indicates
    the page cannot yet be freed.
    
    The problem with the default is that if, say, there's no cache, but a
    network filesystem's pages are using up almost all the available memory, a
    system can OOM because the filesystem ->releasepage() op will not allow
    them to be released as fscache_maybe_release_page() incorrectly prevents
    it.
    
    This can be tested by writing a sequence of 512MiB files to an AFS mount.
    It does not affect NFS or CIFS because both of those wrap the call in a
    check of PG_fscache and it shouldn't bother Ceph as that only has
    PG_private set whilst writeback is in progress.  This might be an issue for
    9P, however.
    
    Note that the pages aren't entirely stuck.  Removing a file or unmounting
    will clear things because that uses ->invalidatepage() instead.
    
    Fixes: 201a1542
    
     ("FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions")
    Reported-by: default avatarMarc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Tested-by: default avatarMarc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    2b9b2002