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| H A D | hugetlb.c | b65a4eda Thu Sep 02 16:58:47 CDT 2021 Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> hugetlb: drop ref count earlier after page allocation
When discussing the possibility of inflated page ref counts, Muuchun Song
pointed out this potential issue [1]. It is true that any code could
potentially take a reference on a compound page after allocation and
before it is converted to and put into use as a hugetlb page.
Specifically, this could be done by any users of get_page_unless_zero.
There are three areas of concern within hugetlb code.
1) When adding pages to the pool. In this case, new pages are
allocated added to the pool by calling put_page to invoke the hugetlb
destructor (free_huge_page). If there is an inflated ref count on the
page, it will not be immediately added to the free list. It will only
be added to the free list when the temporary ref count is dropped.
This is deemed acceptable and will not be addressed.
2) A page is allocated for immediate use normally as a surplus page or
migration target. In this case, the user of the page will also hold a
reference. There is no issue as this is just like normal page ref
counting.
3) A page is allocated and MUST be added to the free list to satisfy a
reservation. One such example is gather_surplus_pages as pointed out
by Muchun in [1]. More specifically, this case covers callers of
enqueue_huge_page where the page reference count must be zero. This
patch covers this third case.
Three routines call enqueue_huge_page when the page reference count could
potentially be inflated. They are: gather_surplus_pages,
alloc_and_dissolve_huge_page and add_hugetlb_page.
add_hugetlb_page is called on error paths when a huge page can not be
freed due to the inability to allocate vmemmap pages. In this case, the
temporairly inflated ref count is not an issue. When the ref is dropped
the appropriate action will be taken. Instead of VM_BUG_ON if the ref
count does not drop to zero, simply return.
In gather_surplus_pages and alloc_and_dissolve_huge_page the caller
expects a page (or pages) to be put on the free lists. In this case we
must ensure there are no temporary ref counts. We do this by calling
put_page_testzero() earlier and not using pages without a zero ref count.
The temporary page flag (HPageTemporary) is used in such cases so that as
soon as the inflated ref count is dropped the page will be freed.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAMZfGtVMn3daKrJwZMaVOGOaJU+B4dS--x_oPmGQMD=c=QNGEg@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210809184832.18342-3-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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