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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: Fix the pgtable leak
On Wed 13-02-19 20:29:00, Minchan Kim wrote:
> [1] was backported to v4.9 stable tree but it introduces pgtable
> memory leak because with fault retrial, preallocated pagetable
> could be leaked in second iteration.
> To fix the problem, this patch backport [2].
>
> [1] 5cf3e5ff95876, mm, memcg: fix reclaim deadlock with writeback
> [2] b0b9b3df27d10, mm: stop leaking PageTables
>
> Fixes: 5cf3e5ff95876 ("mm, memcg: fix reclaim deadlock with writeback")
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Cc: Liu Bo <bo.liu@linux.alibaba.com>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.9]
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

Thanks for catching this dependency. Do I assume it correctly that this
is stable-4.9 only?

> ---
> mm/memory.c | 21 +++++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 35d8217bb0467..47248dc0b9e1a 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -3329,15 +3329,24 @@ static int do_fault(struct fault_env *fe)
> {
> struct vm_area_struct *vma = fe->vma;
> pgoff_t pgoff = linear_page_index(vma, fe->address);
> + int ret;
>
> /* The VMA was not fully populated on mmap() or missing VM_DONTEXPAND */
> if (!vma->vm_ops->fault)
> - return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
> - if (!(fe->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE))
> - return do_read_fault(fe, pgoff);
> - if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED))
> - return do_cow_fault(fe, pgoff);
> - return do_shared_fault(fe, pgoff);
> + ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
> + else if (!(fe->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE))
> + ret = do_read_fault(fe, pgoff);
> + else if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED))
> + ret = do_cow_fault(fe, pgoff);
> + else
> + ret = do_shared_fault(fe, pgoff);
> +
> + /* preallocated pagetable is unused: free it */
> + if (fe->prealloc_pte) {
> + pte_free(vma->vm_mm, fe->prealloc_pte);
> + fe->prealloc_pte = 0;
> + }
> + return ret;
> }
>
> static int numa_migrate_prep(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> --
> 2.20.1.791.gb4d0f1c61a-goog
>

--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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