The resv_map could be NULL since this routine can be called in the evict inode path for all hugetlbfs inodes. So we could have chg = 0 and this would result in a negative value when chg - freed. This is unexpected for hugepage_subpool_put_pages() and hugetlb_acct_memory(). Fixes: b5cec28d36f5 ("hugetlbfs: truncate_hugepages() takes a range of pages") Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index b7864abded3d..bdff8d23803f 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -5413,6 +5413,7 @@ long hugetlb_unreserve_pages(struct inode *inode, long start, long end, long chg = 0; struct hugepage_subpool *spool = subpool_inode(inode); long gbl_reserve; + long delta; /* * Since this routine can be called in the evict inode path for all @@ -5437,7 +5438,8 @@ long hugetlb_unreserve_pages(struct inode *inode, long start, long end, * If the subpool has a minimum size, the number of global * reservations to be released may be adjusted. */ - gbl_reserve = hugepage_subpool_put_pages(spool, (chg - freed)); + delta = chg > 0 ? chg - freed : freed; + gbl_reserve = hugepage_subpool_put_pages(spool, delta); hugetlb_acct_memory(h, -gbl_reserve); return 0; -- 2.19.1