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Commit 9d84604b authored by Hugh Dickins's avatar Hugh Dickins Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/thp: refix __split_huge_pmd_locked() for migration PMD

Migration entries do not contribute to a page's reference count: move
__split_huge_pmd_locked()'s page_ref_add() into pmd_migration's else
block (along with the page_count() check - a page is quite likely to
have reference count frozen to 0 when a migration entry is found).

This will fix a very rare anonymous memory leak, after a
split_huge_pmd() raced with an anon split_huge_page() or an anon THP
migrate_pages(): since the wrongly raised refcount stopped the page
(perhaps small, perhaps huge, depending on when the race hit) from ever
being freed.

At first I thought there were worse risks, from prematurely unfreezing a
frozen page: but now think that would only affect page cache pages,
which do not come this way (except for anonymous pages in swap cache,
perhaps).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/84792468-f512-e48f-378c-e34c3641e97@google.com
Fixes: ec0abae6

 ("mm/thp: fix __split_huge_pmd_locked() for migration PMD")
Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarYang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 356ea386
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