From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki release_pages() in mm/swap.c changes page_count() to be 0 without removing PageLRU flag... This means isolate_lru_page() can see a page, PageLRU() && page_count(page)==0.. This is BUG. (get_page() will be called against count=0 page.) Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/migrate.c | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/migrate.c~memory-unplug-v7-isolate_lru_page-fix mm/migrate.c --- a/mm/migrate.c~memory-unplug-v7-isolate_lru_page-fix +++ a/mm/migrate.c @@ -49,9 +49,8 @@ int isolate_lru_page(struct page *page, struct zone *zone = page_zone(page); spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock); - if (PageLRU(page)) { + if (PageLRU(page) && get_page_unless_zero(page)) { ret = 0; - get_page(page); ClearPageLRU(page); if (PageActive(page)) del_page_from_active_list(zone, page); _