When uffd-minor enabled, we need to put the page cache before handling the userfault in hugetlb_no_page(), otherwise the page refcount got leaked. This can be reproduced by running userfaultfd selftest with hugetlb_shared mode, then cat /proc/meminfo. Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: f2bf15fb0969 ("userfaultfd: add minor fault registration mode") Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 408dbc08298a..56b78a206913 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -4449,6 +4449,7 @@ static vm_fault_t hugetlb_no_page(struct mm_struct *mm, /* Check for page in userfault range. */ if (userfaultfd_minor(vma)) { unlock_page(page); + put_page(page); ret = hugetlb_handle_userfault(vma, mapping, idx, flags, haddr, VM_UFFD_MINOR); -- 2.26.2