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Commit dbe409e4 authored by Mike Kravetz's avatar Mike Kravetz Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/hugetlb.c: fix resv map memory leak for placeholder entries



Dmitry Vyukov reported the following memory leak

unreferenced object 0xffff88002eaafd88 (size 32):
  comm "a.out", pid 5063, jiffies 4295774645 (age 15.810s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    28 e9 4e 63 00 88 ff ff 28 e9 4e 63 00 88 ff ff  (.Nc....(.Nc....
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
     kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:458
     region_chg+0x2d4/0x6b0 mm/hugetlb.c:398
     __vma_reservation_common+0x2c3/0x390 mm/hugetlb.c:1791
     vma_needs_reservation mm/hugetlb.c:1813
     alloc_huge_page+0x19e/0xc70 mm/hugetlb.c:1845
     hugetlb_no_page mm/hugetlb.c:3543
     hugetlb_fault+0x7a1/0x1250 mm/hugetlb.c:3717
     follow_hugetlb_page+0x339/0xc70 mm/hugetlb.c:3880
     __get_user_pages+0x542/0xf30 mm/gup.c:497
     populate_vma_page_range+0xde/0x110 mm/gup.c:919
     __mm_populate+0x1c7/0x310 mm/gup.c:969
     do_mlock+0x291/0x360 mm/mlock.c:637
     SYSC_mlock2 mm/mlock.c:658
     SyS_mlock2+0x4b/0x70 mm/mlock.c:648

Dmitry identified a potential memory leak in the routine region_chg,
where a region descriptor is not free'ed on an error path.

However, the root cause for the above memory leak resides in region_del.
In this specific case, a "placeholder" entry is created in region_chg.
The associated page allocation fails, and the placeholder entry is left
in the reserve map.  This is "by design" as the entry should be deleted
when the map is released.  The bug is in the region_del routine which is
used to delete entries within a specific range (and when the map is
released).  region_del did not handle the case where a placeholder entry
exactly matched the start of the range range to be deleted.  In this
case, the entry would not be deleted and leaked.  The fix is to take
these special placeholder entries into account in region_del.

The region_chg error path leak is also fixed.

Fixes: feba16e2 ("mm/hugetlb: add region_del() to delete a specific range of entries")
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reported-by: default avatarDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarHillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.3+]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 0d777df5
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