On 30 Aug 14:50, Mike Kravetz wrote: > Guillaume Morin reported hitting the following WARNING followed > by GPF or NULL pointer deference either in cgroups_destroy or in > the kill_css path.: > > percpu ref (css_release) <= 0 (-1) after switching to atomic > WARNING: CPU: 23 PID: 130 at lib/percpu-refcount.c:196 percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic_rcu+0x127/0x130 > CPU: 23 PID: 130 Comm: ksoftirqd/23 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G O 5.10.60 #1 > RIP: 0010:percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic_rcu+0x127/0x130 > Call Trace: > rcu_core+0x30f/0x530 > rcu_core_si+0xe/0x10 > __do_softirq+0x103/0x2a2 > ? sort_range+0x30/0x30 > run_ksoftirqd+0x2b/0x40 > smpboot_thread_fn+0x11a/0x170 > kthread+0x10a/0x140 > ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70 > ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 > > Upon further examination, it was discovered that the css structure > was associated with hugetlb reservations. > > For private hugetlb mappings the vma points to a reserve map that > contains a pointer to the css. At mmap time, reservations are set up > and a reference to the css is taken. This reference is dropped in the > vma close operation; hugetlb_vm_op_close. However, if a vma is split > no additional reference to the css is taken yet hugetlb_vm_op_close will > be called twice for the split vma resulting in an underflow. > > Fix by taking another reference in hugetlb_vm_op_open. Note that the > reference is only taken for the owner of the reserve map. In the more > common fork case, the pointer to the reserve map is cleared for > non-owning vmas. > > Fixes: e9fe92ae0cd2 ("hugetlb_cgroup: add reservation accounting for > private mappings") > Reported-by: Guillaume Morin <guillaume@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Suggested-by: Guillaume Morin <guillaume@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I verified that the patch does fix the underflow. I appreciate the help! Feel free to add: Tested-by: Guillaume Morin <guillaume@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- Guillaume Morin <guillaume@xxxxxxxxxxx>