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mm/thp: refix __split_huge_pmd_locked() for migration PMD

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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>
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Hugh Dickins 2022-03-22 14:46:11 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 356ea38656
commit 9d84604b84
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -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.