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Subject[PATCH v1] mm: hugetlb: fix hugepage memory leak caused by wrong reserve count
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When dequeue_huge_page_vma() in alloc_huge_page() fails, we fall back to
alloc_buddy_huge_page() to directly create a hugepage from the buddy allocator.
In that case, however, if alloc_buddy_huge_page() succeeds we don't decrement
h->resv_huge_pages, which means that successful hugetlb_fault() returns without
releasing the reserve count. As a result, subsequent hugetlb_fault() might fail
despite that there are still free hugepages.

This patch simply adds decrementing code on that code path.

I reproduced this problem when testing v4.3 kernel in the following situation:
- the test machine/VM is a NUMA system,
- hugepage overcommiting is enabled,
- most of hugepages are allocated and there's only one free hugepage
which is on node 0 (for example),
- another program, which calls set_mempolicy(MPOL_BIND) to bind itself to
node 1, tries to allocate a hugepage,
- the allocation should fail but the reserve count is still hold.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.16+]
---
- the reason why I set stable target to "3.16+" is that this patch can be
applied easily/automatically on these versions. But this bug seems to be
old one, so if you are interested in backporting to older kernels,
please let me know.
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 5 ++++-
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git v4.3/mm/hugetlb.c v4.3_patched/mm/hugetlb.c
index 9cc7734..77c518c 100644
--- v4.3/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ v4.3_patched/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1790,7 +1790,10 @@ struct page *alloc_huge_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
page = alloc_buddy_huge_page(h, NUMA_NO_NODE);
if (!page)
goto out_uncharge_cgroup;
-
+ if (!avoid_reserve && vma_has_reserves(vma, gbl_chg)) {
+ SetPagePrivate(page);
+ h->resv_huge_pages--;
+ }
spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
list_move(&page->lru, &h->hugepage_activelist);
/* Fall through */
--
1.7.1


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