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

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From: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>

commit 7a71932d5676b7410ab64d149bad8bde6b0d8632 upstream.

KPF_THP can be set on non-huge compound pages (like slab pages or pages
allocated by drivers with __GFP_COMP) because PageTransCompound only
checks PG_head and PG_tail.  Obviously this is a bug and breaks user space
applications which look for thp via /proc/kpageflags.

This patch rules out setting KPF_THP wrongly by additionally checking
PageLRU on the head pages.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 fs/proc/page.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/proc/page.c
+++ b/fs/proc/page.c
@@ -115,7 +115,13 @@ u64 stable_page_flags(struct page *page)
                u |= 1 << KPF_COMPOUND_TAIL;
        if (PageHuge(page))
                u |= 1 << KPF_HUGE;
-       else if (PageTransCompound(page))
+       /*
+        * PageTransCompound can be true for non-huge compound pages (slab
+        * pages or pages allocated by drivers with __GFP_COMP) because it
+        * just checks PG_head/PG_tail, so we need to check PageLRU to make
+        * sure a given page is a thp, not a non-huge compound page.
+        */
+       else if (PageTransCompound(page) && PageLRU(compound_trans_head(page)))
                u |= 1 << KPF_THP;
 
        /*


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