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[AUTOSEL,12/14] mm/thp: refix __split_huge_pmd_locked() for migration PMD

Message ID 20220428154222.1230793-12-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
State New
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Series [AUTOSEL,01/14] mm: fix invalid page pointer returned with FOLL_PIN gups | expand

Commit Message

Greg Kroah-Hartman April 28, 2022, 3:42 p.m. UTC 
From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>

commit 9d84604b845c3888d1bede43d16ab3ebedb13e24 upstream.

Migration entries do not contribute to a page's reference count: move
__split_huge_pmd_locked()'s page_ref_add() into pmd_migration's else
block (along with the page_count() check - a page is quite likely to
have reference count frozen to 0 when a migration entry is found).

This will fix a very rare anonymous memory leak, after a
split_huge_pmd() raced with an anon split_huge_page() or an anon THP
migrate_pages(): since the wrongly raised refcount stopped the page
(perhaps small, perhaps huge, depending on when the race hit) from ever
being freed.

At first I thought there were worse risks, from prematurely unfreezing a
frozen page: but now think that would only affect page cache pages,
which do not come this way (except for anonymous pages in swap cache,
perhaps).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/84792468-f512-e48f-378c-e34c3641e97@google.com
Fixes: ec0abae6dcdf ("mm/thp: fix __split_huge_pmd_locked() for migration PMD")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 406a3c28c026..468fca576bc2 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2055,9 +2055,9 @@  static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 		young = pmd_young(old_pmd);
 		soft_dirty = pmd_soft_dirty(old_pmd);
 		uffd_wp = pmd_uffd_wp(old_pmd);
+		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!page_count(page), page);
+		page_ref_add(page, HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1);
 	}
-	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!page_count(page), page);
-	page_ref_add(page, HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1);
 
 	/*
 	 * Withdraw the table only after we mark the pmd entry invalid.