From: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx> Hugetlbfs leaves a dangling pointer in the VMA if mmap fails. This has not been a problem so far, but other code in this patch series tries to follow that pointer. Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 04ada095dcfc ("hugetlb: don't delete vma_lock in hugetlb MADV_DONTNEED processing") --- mm/hugetlb.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index ba6d39b71cb1..a86e070d735b 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -1138,8 +1138,7 @@ static void set_vma_resv_map(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct resv_map *map) VM_BUG_ON_VMA(!is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma), vma); VM_BUG_ON_VMA(vma->vm_flags & VM_MAYSHARE, vma); - set_vma_private_data(vma, (get_vma_private_data(vma) & - HPAGE_RESV_MASK) | (unsigned long)map); + set_vma_private_data(vma, (unsigned long)map); } static void set_vma_resv_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long flags) @@ -6806,8 +6805,10 @@ bool hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode, */ if (chg >= 0 && add < 0) region_abort(resv_map, from, to, regions_needed); - if (vma && is_vma_resv_set(vma, HPAGE_RESV_OWNER)) + if (vma && is_vma_resv_set(vma, HPAGE_RESV_OWNER)) { kref_put(&resv_map->refs, resv_map_release); + set_vma_resv_map(vma, NULL); + } return false; } -- 2.41.0