memfd_pin_folios followed by unpin_folios fails to restore free_huge_pages if the pages were not already faulted in, because the folio refcount for pages created by memfd_alloc_folio never goes to 0. memfd_pin_folios needs another folio_put to undo the folio_try_get below: memfd_alloc_folio() alloc_hugetlb_folio_nodemask() dequeue_hugetlb_folio_nodemask() dequeue_hugetlb_folio_node_exact() folio_ref_unfreeze(folio, 1); ; adds 1 refcount folio_try_get() ; adds 1 refcount hugetlb_add_to_page_cache() ; adds 512 refcount (on x86) With the fix, after memfd_pin_folios + unpin_folios, the refcount for the (unfaulted) page is 512, which is correct, as the refcount for a faulted unpinned page is 513. Fixes: 89c1905d9c14 ("mm/gup: introduce memfd_pin_folios() for pinning memfd folios") Signed-off-by: Steve Sistare <steven.sistare@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/gup.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c index 54d0dc3..5b92f1d 100644 --- a/mm/gup.c +++ b/mm/gup.c @@ -3618,7 +3618,7 @@ long memfd_pin_folios(struct file *memfd, loff_t start, loff_t end, pgoff_t start_idx, end_idx, next_idx; struct folio *folio = NULL; struct folio_batch fbatch; - struct hstate *h; + struct hstate *h = NULL; long ret = -EINVAL; if (start < 0 || start > end || !max_folios) @@ -3662,6 +3662,8 @@ long memfd_pin_folios(struct file *memfd, loff_t start, loff_t end, &fbatch); if (folio) { folio_put(folio); + if (h) + folio_put(folio); folio = NULL; } -- 1.8.3.1