[PATCH 3.19 042/177] mm/nommu: fix memory leak

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-03-16T14:12:29Z

From: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>

commit da616534ed7f6e8ffaab699258b55c8d78d0b4ea upstream.

Maxime reported the following memory leak regression due to commit
dbc8358c7237 ("mm/nommu: use alloc_pages_exact() rather than its own
implementation").

On v3.19, I am facing a memory leak. Each time I run a command one page
is lost. Here an example with busybox's free command:

/ # free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 7928 1972 5956 0 0 492
-/+ buffers/cache: 1480 6448
/ # free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 7928 1976 5952 0 0 492
-/+ buffers/cache: 1484 6444
/ # free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 7928 1980 5948 0 0 492
-/+ buffers/cache: 1488 6440
/ # free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 7928 1984 5944 0 0 492
-/+ buffers/cache: 1492 6436
/ # free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 7928 1988 5940 0 0 492
-/+ buffers/cache: 1496 6432

At some point, the system fails to sastisfy 256KB allocations:

free: page allocation failure: order:6, mode:0xd0
CPU: 0 PID: 67 Comm: free Not tainted 3.19.0-05389-gacf2cf1-dirty #64
Hardware name: STM32 (Device Tree Support)
show_stack+0xb/0xc
warn_alloc_failed+0x97/0xbc
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x295/0x35c
__get_free_pages+0xb/0x24
alloc_pages_exact+0x19/0x24
do_mmap_pgoff+0x423/0x658
vm_mmap_pgoff+0x3f/0x4e
load_flat_file+0x20d/0x4f8
load_flat_binary+0x3f/0x26c
search_binary_handler+0x51/0xe4
do_execveat_common+0x271/0x35c
do_execve+0x19/0x1c
ret_fast_syscall+0x1/0x4a
Mem-info:
Normal per-cpu:
CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0
active_anon:0 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:0
active_file:0 inactive_file:0 isolated_file:0
unevictable:123 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
free:1515 slab_reclaimable:17 slab_unreclaimable:139
mapped:0 shmem:0 pagetables:0 bounce:0
free_cma:0
Normal free:6060kB min:352kB low:440kB high:528kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:492kB isolated(anon):0ks
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0
Normal: 23*4kB (U) 22*8kB (U) 24*16kB (U) 23*32kB (U) 23*64kB (U) 23*128kB (U) 1*256kB (U) 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 6060kB
123 total pagecache pages
2048 pages of RAM
1538 free pages
66 reserved pages
109 slab pages
-46 pages shared
0 pages swap cached
nommu: Allocation of length 221184 from process 67 (free) failed
Normal per-cpu:
CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0
active_anon:0 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:0
active_file:0 inactive_file:0 isolated_file:0
unevictable:123 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
free:1515 slab_reclaimable:17 slab_unreclaimable:139
mapped:0 shmem:0 pagetables:0 bounce:0
free_cma:0
Normal free:6060kB min:352kB low:440kB high:528kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:492kB isolated(anon):0ks
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0
Normal: 23*4kB (U) 22*8kB (U) 24*16kB (U) 23*32kB (U) 23*64kB (U) 23*128kB (U) 1*256kB (U) 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 6060kB
123 total pagecache pages
Unable to allocate RAM for process text/data, errno 12 SEGV

This problem happens because we allocate ordered page through
__get_free_pages() in do_mmap_private() in some cases and we try to free
individual pages rather than ordered page in free_page_series(). In
this case, freeing pages whose refcount is not 0 won't be freed to the
page allocator so memory leak happens.

To fix the problem, this patch changes __get_free_pages() to
alloc_pages_exact() since alloc_pages_exact() returns
physically-contiguous pages but each pages are refcounted.

Fixes: dbc8358c7237 ("mm/nommu: use alloc_pages_exact() rather than its own implementation").
Reported-by: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.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/nommu.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -1189,11 +1189,9 @@ static int do_mmap_private(struct vm_are
if (sysctl_nr_trim_pages && total - point >= sysctl_nr_trim_pages) {
total = point;
kdebug("try to alloc exact %lu pages", total);
- base = alloc_pages_exact(len, GFP_KERNEL);
- } else {
- base = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, order);
}

+ base = alloc_pages_exact(total << PAGE_SHIFT, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!base)
goto enomem;