From: Hongfu Li <hongfu.li@linux.dev>
To: hughd@google.com, baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, vivek.kasireddy@intel.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
hongfu.li@linux.dev, Hongfu Li <lihongfu@kylinos.cn>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/memfd: don't unreserve hugetlb pages on -EEXIST in error path
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:06:31 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260831090631.29227-1-hongfu.li@linux.dev> (raw)
From: Hongfu Li <lihongfu@kylinos.cn>
If hugetlb_add_to_page_cache() fails with -EEXIST, a concurrent fault has
already instantiated the folio in the page cache, and the reservation now
belongs to that folio. Calling hugetlb_unreserve_pages() in that case
incorrectly removes the region backing the cached folio, and a later
truncate or inode eviction passes a negative (chg - freed) into
hugepage_subpool_put_pages(), corrupting subpool and resv_huge_pages
accounting.
Skip the unreserve on -EEXIST; failures other than -EEXIST leave the
reservation unconsumed and still unreserve it.
Fixes: 717cf9357325 ("mm/memfd: reserve hugetlb folios before allocation")
Signed-off-by: Hongfu Li <lihongfu@kylinos.cn>
---
mm/memfd.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/memfd.c b/mm/memfd.c
index c708d92533f4..1b65bc22fb19 100644
--- a/mm/memfd.c
+++ b/mm/memfd.c
@@ -128,6 +128,12 @@ struct folio *memfd_alloc_folio(struct file *memfd, pgoff_t idx)
if (err) {
folio_put(folio);
+ /*
+ * On -EEXIST, a concurrent fault has cached the folio,
+ * which now owns the reservation; don't unreserve.
+ */
+ if (err == -EEXIST)
+ return ERR_PTR(err);
goto err_unresv;
}
--
2.54.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-31 9:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-31 9:06 Hongfu Li [this message]
2026-09-01 0:35 ` [PATCH] mm/memfd: don't unreserve hugetlb pages on -EEXIST in error path Andrew Morton
2026-09-01 9:01 ` Hongfu Li
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