FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm: hugetlb: drop refcount before freeing on memcg charge failure" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm: hugetlb: drop refcount before freeing on memcg charge failure" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree

[Sasha Levin]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.18-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.18.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x e95d29c5df84f19881cd30b491fc81aa98f44b45
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '20261107050902-failed-6.18-e95d29c5df84@kernel.org' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.18.y' 'HEAD^..'

Thanks,
Sasha

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From e95d29c5df84f19881cd30b491fc81aa98f44b45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 10:11:01 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: drop refcount before freeing on memcg charge
 failure

When mem_cgroup_charge_hugetlb(folio, gfp) returns -ENOMEM, the folio has
its refcount set to 1 via folio_ref_unfreeze(folio, 1).

The error path calls free_huge_folio(folio) directly, which expects a
refcount of 0.  Hence, VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio_ref_count(folio), folio) is
triggered.

Even with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM disabled, returning a folio with refcount 1 to
the freelist can corrupt allocator state later.

Use folio_put(folio) instead of free_huge_folio(folio) to properly drop
the reference before freeing it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260909-hugetlb-alloc-folio-memcg-charge-error-handling-v2-2-4b4a8a19a7f7@google.com
Fixes: 991135774c0e ("memcg/hugetlb: introduce mem_cgroup_charge_hugetlb")
Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dongliang Mu <dzm91@hust.edu.cn>
Cc: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>
Cc: Hongxiang Lou <louhongxiang@huawei.com>
Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Ma Wupeng <mawupeng1@huawei.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Yanteng Si <si.yanteng@linux.dev>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index a16d04aae6196..cdb7d8df666a7 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2917,7 +2917,7 @@ struct folio *hugetlb_alloc_folio(struct hstate *h,
 	lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_HUGETLB, nr_pages);
 
 	if (ret == -ENOMEM) {
-		free_huge_folio(folio);
+		folio_put(folio);
 		/*
 		 * Skip uncharging hugetlb_cgroup since the charges
 		 * were committed to the folio and freeing the folio
-- 
2.53.0