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author | Naoya Horiguchi | 2015-12-11 13:40:24 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds | 2015-12-12 10:15:34 -0800 |
commit | a88c769548047b21f76fd71e04b6a3300ff17160 (patch) | |
tree | 29db452a002d99d40bda95a42a586fb52ddb98c3 /drivers/char/efirtc.c | |
parent | b9d85451ddd4e7f2d6280506f6fe7f1924356924 (diff) |
mm: hugetlb: fix hugepage memory leak caused by wrong reserve count
When dequeue_huge_page_vma() in alloc_huge_page() fails, we fall back on
alloc_buddy_huge_page() to directly create a hugepage from the buddy
allocator.
In that case, however, if alloc_buddy_huge_page() succeeds we don't
decrement h->resv_huge_pages, which means that successful
hugetlb_fault() returns without releasing the reserve count. As a
result, subsequent hugetlb_fault() might fail despite that there are
still free hugepages.
This patch simply adds decrementing code on that code path.
I reproduced this problem when testing v4.3 kernel in the following situation:
- the test machine/VM is a NUMA system,
- hugepage overcommiting is enabled,
- most of hugepages are allocated and there's only one free hugepage
which is on node 0 (for example),
- another program, which calls set_mempolicy(MPOL_BIND) to bind itself to
node 1, tries to allocate a hugepage,
- the allocation should fail but the reserve count is still hold.
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.16+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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