The patch titled Subject: mm: fix copy_vma() error handling for hugetlb mappings has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-fix-copy_vma-error-handling-for-hugetlb-mappings.patch
This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches...
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------------------------------------------------------ From: Ricardo Ca��uelo Navarro rcn@igalia.com Subject: mm: fix copy_vma() error handling for hugetlb mappings Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 14:19:10 +0200
If, during a mremap() operation for a hugetlb-backed memory mapping, copy_vma() fails after the source vma has been duplicated and opened (ie. vma_link() fails), the error is handled by closing the new vma. This updates the hugetlbfs reservation counter of the reservation map which at this point is referenced by both the source vma and the new copy. As a result, once the new vma has been freed and copy_vma() returns, the reservation counter for the source vma will be incorrect.
This patch addresses this corner case by clearing the hugetlb private page reservation reference for the new vma and decrementing the reference before closing the vma, so that vma_close() won't update the reservation counter. This is also what copy_vma_and_data() does with the source vma if copy_vma() succeeds, so a helper function has been added to do the fixup in both functions.
The issue was reported by a private syzbot instance and can be reproduced using the C reproducer in [1]. It's also a possible duplicate of public syzbot report [2]. The WARNING report is:
============================================================ page_counter underflow: -1024 nr_pages=1024 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3287 at mm/page_counter.c:61 page_counter_cancel+0xf6/0x120 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 3287 Comm: repro__WARNING_ Not tainted 6.15.0-rc7+ #54 NONE Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-2-gc13ff2cd-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:page_counter_cancel+0xf6/0x120 Code: ff 5b 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc e8 f3 4f 8f ff c6 05 64 01 27 06 01 48 c7 c7 60 15 f8 85 48 89 de 4c 89 fa e8 2a a7 51 ff <0f> 0b e9 66 ff ff ff 44 89 f9 80 e1 07 38 c1 7c 9d 4c 81 RSP: 0018:ffffc900025df6a0 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 2edfc409ebb44e00 RBX: fffffffffffffc00 RCX: ffff8880155f0000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffffffff81c4a23c R09: 1ffff1100330482a R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100330482b R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffff888058a882c0 R14: ffff888058a882c0 R15: 0000000000000400 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88808fc53000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00000000004b33e0 CR3: 00000000076d6000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 Call Trace: <TASK> page_counter_uncharge+0x33/0x80 hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_counter+0xcb/0x120 hugetlb_vm_op_close+0x579/0x960 ? __pfx_hugetlb_vm_op_close+0x10/0x10 remove_vma+0x88/0x130 exit_mmap+0x71e/0xe00 ? __pfx_exit_mmap+0x10/0x10 ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x22e/0x7f0 ? __pfx_exit_aio+0x10/0x10 ? __up_read+0x256/0x690 ? uprobe_clear_state+0x274/0x290 ? mm_update_next_owner+0xa9/0x810 __mmput+0xc9/0x370 exit_mm+0x203/0x2f0 ? __pfx_exit_mm+0x10/0x10 ? taskstats_exit+0x32b/0xa60 do_exit+0x921/0x2740 ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x155/0x3b0 ? __pfx_do_exit+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_do_raw_spin_lock+0x10/0x10 ? _raw_spin_lock_irq+0xc5/0x100 do_group_exit+0x20c/0x2c0 get_signal+0x168c/0x1720 ? __pfx_get_signal+0x10/0x10 ? schedule+0x165/0x360 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x8e/0x7d0 ? __pfx_arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx___se_sys_futex+0x10/0x10 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0xb8/0x2c0 do_syscall_64+0x75/0x120 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e RIP: 0033:0x422dcd Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x422da3. RSP: 002b:00007ff266cdb208 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 00007ff266cdbcdc RCX: 0000000000422dcd RDX: 00000000000f4240 RSI: 0000000000000081 RDI: 00000000004c7bec RBP: 00007ff266cdb220 R08: 203a6362696c6720 R09: 203a6362696c6720 R10: 0000200000c00000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: ffffffffffffffd0 R13: 0000000000000002 R14: 00007ffe1cb5f520 R15: 00007ff266cbb000 </TASK> ============================================================
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250523-warning_in_page_counter_cancel-v2-1-b6df1... Link: https://people.igalia.com/rcn/kernel_logs/20250422__WARNING_in_page_counter_... [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/67000a50.050a0220.49194.048d.GAE@google.com/ [2] Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ca��uelo Navarro rcn@igalia.com Suggested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett Liam.Howlett@oracle.com Cc: Florent Revest revest@google.com Cc: Jann Horn jannh@google.com Cc: Oscar Salvador osalvador@suse.de Cc: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
include/linux/hugetlb.h | 5 +++++ mm/hugetlb.c | 16 +++++++++++++++- mm/mremap.c | 3 +-- mm/vma.c | 1 + 4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h~mm-fix-copy_vma-error-handling-for-hugetlb-mappings +++ a/include/linux/hugetlb.h @@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ long hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm bool is_hugetlb_entry_migration(pte_t pte); bool is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned(pte_t pte); void hugetlb_unshare_all_pmds(struct vm_area_struct *vma); +void fixup_hugetlb_reservations(struct vm_area_struct *vma);
#else /* !CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */
@@ -468,6 +469,10 @@ static inline vm_fault_t hugetlb_fault(s
static inline void hugetlb_unshare_all_pmds(struct vm_area_struct *vma) { }
+static inline void fixup_hugetlb_reservations(struct vm_area_struct *vma) +{ +} + #endif /* !CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */
#ifndef pgd_write --- a/mm/hugetlb.c~mm-fix-copy_vma-error-handling-for-hugetlb-mappings +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -1250,7 +1250,7 @@ void hugetlb_dup_vma_private(struct vm_a /* * Reset and decrement one ref on hugepage private reservation. * Called with mm->mmap_lock writer semaphore held. - * This function should be only used by move_vma() and operate on + * This function should be only used by mremap and operate on * same sized vma. It should never come here with last ref on the * reservation. */ @@ -7939,3 +7939,17 @@ void hugetlb_unshare_all_pmds(struct vm_ hugetlb_unshare_pmds(vma, ALIGN(vma->vm_start, PUD_SIZE), ALIGN_DOWN(vma->vm_end, PUD_SIZE)); } + +/* + * For hugetlb, mremap() is an odd edge case - while the VMA copying is + * performed, we permit both the old and new VMAs to reference the same + * reservation. + * + * We fix this up after the operation succeeds, or if a newly allocated VMA + * is closed as a result of a failure to allocate memory. + */ +void fixup_hugetlb_reservations(struct vm_area_struct *vma) +{ + if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) + clear_vma_resv_huge_pages(vma); +} --- a/mm/mremap.c~mm-fix-copy_vma-error-handling-for-hugetlb-mappings +++ a/mm/mremap.c @@ -1188,8 +1188,7 @@ static int copy_vma_and_data(struct vma_ mremap_userfaultfd_prep(new_vma, vrm->uf); }
- if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) - clear_vma_resv_huge_pages(vma); + fixup_hugetlb_reservations(vma);
/* Tell pfnmap has moved from this vma */ if (unlikely(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP)) --- a/mm/vma.c~mm-fix-copy_vma-error-handling-for-hugetlb-mappings +++ a/mm/vma.c @@ -1834,6 +1834,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct *copy_vma(struct v return new_vma;
out_vma_link: + fixup_hugetlb_reservations(new_vma); vma_close(new_vma);
if (new_vma->vm_file) _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from rcn@igalia.com are
mm-fix-copy_vma-error-handling-for-hugetlb-mappings.patch