From 50ee565c1e900e247e439e4139839b060c968343 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hongfu Li Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 11:01:34 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm/memfd: fix hugetlb reservation accounting in error paths If hugetlb_add_to_page_cache() in memfd_alloc_folio() fails with -EEXIST, a concurrent fault has already instantiated the folio in the page cache, and the reservation now belongs to that folio. Calling hugetlb_unreserve_pages() in that case incorrectly removes the region backing the cached folio and releases one reservation more than it should, leaving that folio in the page cache with no region recording it. That leaves resv_huge_pages one page short until that folio is removed from the page cache, so available_huge_pages() reports a page that is not actually free and the pool can grant one reservation more than it can back. Applications using hugetlb memfds can then fail to allocate or fault in a page they already reserved. They see -ENOMEM or -ENOSPC from the allocation or fault path even though the reservation and HugePages_Free still look healthy. So hold the hugetlb fault mutex from hugetlb_reserve_pages() until the error-path unreserve completes to make the reserve, allocate and instantiate steps atomic against concurrent faults. With the mutex held from the start, a concurrent fault can no longer consume the reservation between reserve and allocate/instantiate. If a fault completed before the mutex was taken, it has already added the region for that index, so hugetlb_reserve_pages() returns 0 and the error path leaves the region in place. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260927094757.31665-1-hongfu.li@linux.dev Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260903030134.7407-1-hongfu.li@linux.dev Fixes: 717cf9357325 ("mm/memfd: reserve hugetlb folios before allocation") Signed-off-by: Hongfu Li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Vivek Kasireddy Cc: --- mm/memfd.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memfd.c b/mm/memfd.c index c708d92533f4..0f6fff004f5e 100644 --- a/mm/memfd.c +++ b/mm/memfd.c @@ -82,22 +82,31 @@ struct folio *memfd_alloc_folio(struct file *memfd, pgoff_t idx) struct hstate *h = hstate_file(memfd); int err = -ENOMEM; long nr_resv; + u32 hash; gfp_mask = htlb_alloc_mask(h); gfp_mask &= ~(__GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_MOVABLE); idx >>= huge_page_order(h); + /* + * Serialize hugepage allocation and instantiation to prevent + * races with concurrent allocations, as required by all other + * callers of hugetlb_add_to_page_cache(). + */ + hash = hugetlb_fault_mutex_hash(memfd->f_mapping, idx); + mutex_lock(&hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[hash]); + nr_resv = hugetlb_reserve_pages(inode, idx, idx + 1, NULL, EMPTY_VMA_FLAGS); - if (nr_resv < 0) - return ERR_PTR(nr_resv); + if (nr_resv < 0) { + err = nr_resv; + goto out_unlock; + } folio = alloc_hugetlb_folio_reserve(h, numa_node_id(), NULL, gfp_mask); if (folio) { - u32 hash; - /* * Zero the folio to prevent information leaks to userspace. * Use folio_zero_user() which is optimized for huge/gigantic @@ -112,20 +121,9 @@ struct folio *memfd_alloc_folio(struct file *memfd, pgoff_t idx) */ __folio_mark_uptodate(folio); - /* - * Serialize hugepage allocation and instantiation to prevent - * races with concurrent allocations, as required by all other - * callers of hugetlb_add_to_page_cache(). - */ - hash = hugetlb_fault_mutex_hash(memfd->f_mapping, idx); - mutex_lock(&hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[hash]); - err = hugetlb_add_to_page_cache(folio, memfd->f_mapping, idx); - - mutex_unlock(&hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[hash]); - if (err) { folio_put(folio); goto err_unresv; @@ -133,11 +131,14 @@ struct folio *memfd_alloc_folio(struct file *memfd, pgoff_t idx) hugetlb_set_folio_subpool(folio, subpool_inode(inode)); folio_unlock(folio); + mutex_unlock(&hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[hash]); return folio; } err_unresv: if (nr_resv > 0) hugetlb_unreserve_pages(inode, idx, idx + 1, 0); +out_unlock: + mutex_unlock(&hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[hash]); return ERR_PTR(err); } #endif