The patch titled Subject: userfaultfd/hugetlbfs: fix minor fault page leak has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is userfaultfd-add-minor-fault-registration-mode-fix.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/userfaultfd-add-minor-fault-registration-mode-fix.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/userfaultfd-add-minor-fault-registration-mode-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: userfaultfd/hugetlbfs: fix minor fault page leak When uffd-minor enabled, we need to put the page cache before handling the userfault in hugetlb_no_page(), otherwise the page refcount got leaked. This can be reproduced by running userfaultfd selftest with hugetlb_shared mode, then cat /proc/meminfo. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210322175132.36659-1-peterx@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: f2bf15fb0969 ("userfaultfd: add minor fault registration mode") Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/mm/hugetlb.c~userfaultfd-add-minor-fault-registration-mode-fix +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -4565,6 +4565,7 @@ retry: /* Check for page in userfault range. */ if (userfaultfd_minor(vma)) { unlock_page(page); + put_page(page); ret = hugetlb_handle_userfault(vma, mapping, idx, flags, haddr, VM_UFFD_MINOR); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from peterx@xxxxxxxxxx are hugetlb-pass-vma-into-huge_pte_alloc-and-huge_pmd_share.patch hugetlb-pass-vma-into-huge_pte_alloc-and-huge_pmd_share-fix.patch hugetlb-userfaultfd-forbid-huge-pmd-sharing-when-uffd-enabled.patch hugetlb-userfaultfd-forbid-huge-pmd-sharing-when-uffd-enabled-fix.patch mm-hugetlb-move-flush_hugetlb_tlb_range-into-hugetlbh.patch hugetlb-userfaultfd-unshare-all-pmds-for-hugetlbfs-when-register-wp.patch userfaultfd-add-minor-fault-registration-mode-fix.patch userfaultfd-selftests-use-user-mode-only.patch userfaultfd-selftests-remove-the-time-check-on-delayed-uffd.patch userfaultfd-selftests-dropping-verify-check-in-locking_thread.patch userfaultfd-selftests-only-dump-counts-if-mode-enabled.patch userfaultfd-selftests-unify-error-handling.patch