[patch 151/227] mm/thp: refix __split_huge_pmd_locked() for migration PMD

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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/thp: refix __split_huge_pmd_locked() for migration PMD

Migration entries do not contribute to a page's reference count: move
__split_huge_pmd_locked()'s page_ref_add() into pmd_migration's else block
(along with the page_count() check - a page is quite likely to have
reference count frozen to 0 when a migration entry is found).

This will fix a very rare anonymous memory leak, after a split_huge_pmd()
raced with an anon split_huge_page() or an anon THP migrate_pages(): since
the wrongly raised refcount stopped the page (perhaps small, perhaps huge,
depending on when the race hit) from ever being freed.  At first I thought
there were worse risks, from prematurely unfreezing a frozen page: but now
think that would only affect page cache pages, which do not come this way
(except for anonymous pages in swap cache, perhaps).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/84792468-f512-e48f-378c-e34c3641e97@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: ec0abae6dcdf ("mm/thp: fix __split_huge_pmd_locked() for migration PMD")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/huge_memory.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-thp-refix-__split_huge_pmd_locked-for-migration-pmd
+++ a/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2055,9 +2055,9 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(stru
 		young = pmd_young(old_pmd);
 		soft_dirty = pmd_soft_dirty(old_pmd);
 		uffd_wp = pmd_uffd_wp(old_pmd);
+		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!page_count(page), page);
+		page_ref_add(page, HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1);
 	}
-	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!page_count(page), page);
-	page_ref_add(page, HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1);
 
 	/*
 	 * Withdraw the table only after we mark the pmd entry invalid.
_




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