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mm/hugetlb: fix memfd_pin_folios resv_huge_pages leak
authorSteve Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
Tue, 3 Sep 2024 14:25:19 +0000 (07:25 -0700)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 26 Sep 2024 21:01:43 +0000 (14:01 -0700)
commit26a8ea80929c518bdec5e53a5776f95919b7c88e
tree735807d1340f0297a99e5ea65c58f867be55e3e9
parentc56b6f3d801d7ec8965993342bdd9e2972b6cb8e
mm/hugetlb: fix memfd_pin_folios resv_huge_pages leak

memfd_pin_folios followed by unpin_folios leaves resv_huge_pages elevated
if the pages were not already faulted in.  During a normal page fault,
resv_huge_pages is consumed here:

hugetlb_fault()
  alloc_hugetlb_folio()
    dequeue_hugetlb_folio_vma()
      dequeue_hugetlb_folio_nodemask()
        dequeue_hugetlb_folio_node_exact()
          free_huge_pages--
      resv_huge_pages--

During memfd_pin_folios, the page is created by calling
alloc_hugetlb_folio_nodemask instead of alloc_hugetlb_folio, and
resv_huge_pages is not modified:

memfd_alloc_folio()
  alloc_hugetlb_folio_nodemask()
    dequeue_hugetlb_folio_nodemask()
      dequeue_hugetlb_folio_node_exact()
        free_huge_pages--

alloc_hugetlb_folio_nodemask has other callers that must not modify
resv_huge_pages.  Therefore, to fix, define an alternate version of
alloc_hugetlb_folio_nodemask for this call site that adjusts
resv_huge_pages.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1725373521-451395-4-git-send-email-steven.sistare@oracle.com
Fixes: 89c1905d9c14 ("mm/gup: introduce memfd_pin_folios() for pinning memfd folios")
Signed-off-by: Steve Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Kasireddy <vivek.kasireddy@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/hugetlb.h
mm/hugetlb.c
mm/memfd.c