Since commit 04f2cbe35699 ("hugetlb: guarantee that COW faults for a process that called mmap(MAP_PRIVATE) on hugetlbfs will succeed"), avoid_reserve was introduced for a special case of CoW on hugetlb private mappings, and only if the owner VMA is trying to allocate yet another hugetlb folio that is not reserved within the private vma reserved map.

Later on, in commit d85f69b0b533 ("mm/hugetlb: alloc_huge_page handle areas hole punched by fallocate"), alloc_huge_page() enforced to not consume any global reservation as long as avoid_reserve=true. This operation doesn't look correct, because even if it will enforce the allocation to not use global reservation at all, it will still try to take one reservation from the spool (if the subpool existed). Then since the spool reserved pages take from global reservation, it'll also take one reservation globally.

Logically it can cause global reservation to go wrong.

I wrote a reproducer below, trigger this special path, and every run of such program will cause global reservation count to increment by one, until it hits the number of free pages:

#define _GNU_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */ #include <stdio.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <errno.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <sys/mman.h>

#define MSIZE (2UL << 20)

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { const char *path; int *buf; int fd, ret; pid_t child;

if (argc < 2) { printf("usage: %s <hugetlb_file>\n", argv[0]); return -1; }

path = argv[1];

fd = open(path, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0666); if (fd < 0) { perror("open failed"); return -1; }

ret = fallocate(fd, 0, 0, MSIZE); if (ret != 0) { perror("fallocate"); return -1; }

buf = mmap(NULL, MSIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);

if (buf == MAP_FAILED) { perror("mmap() failed"); return -1; }

/* Allocate a page */ *buf = 1;

child = fork(); if (child == 0) { /* child doesn't need to do anything */ exit(0); }

/* Trigger CoW from owner */ *buf = 2;

munmap(buf, MSIZE); close(fd); unlink(path);

return 0; }

It can only reproduce with a sub-mount when there're reserved pages on the spool, like:

# sysctl vm.nr_hugepages=128 # mkdir ./hugetlb-pool # mount -t hugetlbfs -o min_size=8M,pagesize=2M none ./hugetlb-pool

Then run the reproducer on the mountpoint:

# ./reproducer ./hugetlb-pool/test

Fix it by taking the reservation from spool if available. In general, avoid_reserve is IMHO more about "avoid vma resv map", not spool's.

I copied stable, however I have no intention for backporting if it's not a clean cherry-pick, because private hugetlb mapping, and then fork() on top is too rare to hit.

Cc: linux-stable stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: d85f69b0b533 ("mm/hugetlb: alloc_huge_page handle areas hole punched by fallocate") Signed-off-by: Peter Xu peterx@redhat.com --- mm/hugetlb.c | 22 +++------------------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index cec4b121193f..9ce69fd22a01 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -1394,8 +1394,7 @@ static unsigned long available_huge_pages(struct hstate *h)

static struct folio *dequeue_hugetlb_folio_vma(struct hstate *h, struct vm_area_struct *vma, - unsigned long address, int avoid_reserve, - long chg) + unsigned long address, long chg) { struct folio *folio = NULL; struct mempolicy *mpol; @@ -1411,10 +1410,6 @@ static struct folio *dequeue_hugetlb_folio_vma(struct hstate *h, if (!vma_has_reserves(vma, chg) && !available_huge_pages(h)) goto err;

- /* If reserves cannot be used, ensure enough pages are in the pool */ - if (avoid_reserve && !available_huge_pages(h)) - goto err; - gfp_mask = htlb_alloc_mask(h); nid = huge_node(vma, address, gfp_mask, &mpol, &nodemask);

@@ -1430,7 +1425,7 @@ static struct folio *dequeue_hugetlb_folio_vma(struct hstate *h, folio = dequeue_hugetlb_folio_nodemask(h, gfp_mask, nid, nodemask);

- if (folio && !avoid_reserve && vma_has_reserves(vma, chg)) { + if (folio && vma_has_reserves(vma, chg)) { folio_set_hugetlb_restore_reserve(folio); h->resv_huge_pages--; } @@ -3007,17 +3002,6 @@ struct folio *alloc_hugetlb_folio(struct vm_area_struct *vma, gbl_chg = hugepage_subpool_get_pages(spool, 1); if (gbl_chg < 0) goto out_end_reservation; - - /* - * Even though there was no reservation in the region/reserve - * map, there could be reservations associated with the - * subpool that can be used. This would be indicated if the - * return value of hugepage_subpool_get_pages() is zero. - * However, if avoid_reserve is specified we still avoid even - * the subpool reservations. - */ - if (avoid_reserve) - gbl_chg = 1; }

/* If this allocation is not consuming a reservation, charge it now. @@ -3040,7 +3024,7 @@ struct folio *alloc_hugetlb_folio(struct vm_area_struct *vma, * from the global free pool (global change). gbl_chg == 0 indicates * a reservation exists for the allocation. */ - folio = dequeue_hugetlb_folio_vma(h, vma, addr, avoid_reserve, gbl_chg); + folio = dequeue_hugetlb_folio_vma(h, vma, addr, gbl_chg); if (!folio) { spin_unlock_irq(&hugetlb_lock); folio = alloc_buddy_hugetlb_folio_with_mpol(h, vma, addr);