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. _