Re: [PATCH 13/15] mm/hugetlb: fix reservation leak on min_size= mounts

["Gregory Price (Meta)" <gourry@gourry.net>]

On 2026-10-28 21:13 +0100, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> From: Chris Mason <mason@kernel.org>
> 
> Failed allocations for CoW mappings can leak reservations on hugetlbfs
> mounts with min_size= and no size=. The leaked reservations survive
> unmount.
> 
> HPG_restore_reserve makes free_huge_folio() restore the global
> reservation without returning it to the subpool. This assumes the
> reserve map holds the reservation. However, a CoW mapping may have no
> reserve map, or the map may already account for another folio at the
> same index.
> 
> Commit 58db7c5fbe7d ("mm/hugetlb: fix avoid_reserve to allow taking
> folio from subpool") allowed owner CoW allocations to consume subpool
> reservations. Commit 51e1de00acdb ("mm/hugetlb: simplify
> vma_has_reserves()") later extended this to CoW mappings without a
> reserve map.
> 
> For example, with a subpool minimum of one page and a
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_NORESERVE mapping:
> 
>                                       subpool       global
>                                       rsv_hpages    resv_huge_pages
>   1. Mount                             1             1
>   2. Allocate using subpool reserve    0             0
>   3. Free on error with flag set       0             1
>   4. Allocate without a reservation    0             1
>   5. Free and return to subpool        1             2
> 
> Call folio_clear_hugetlb_restore_reserve() for CoW mappings when
> map_chg != MAP_CHG_REUSE, meaning no reserve-map reservation was consumed.
> This lets free_huge_folio() return subpool reservations to the subpool
> on error.
> 
> Do not set the flag again if region-cache allocation fails during
> rollback: that would undo the flag clearing and skip returning the
> reservation to the subpool. This also fixes the older case where setting
> the flag invents a reservation for an unreserved allocation for a CoW
> mapping.
> 
> The doc still mentions PagePrivate at various places: future work should
> clean that up.
> 
> Fix generated by an LLM and sent by Chris Mason in private.
> 
> Fixes: 846be08578ed ("mm/hugetlb: expand restore_reserve_on_error functionality")
> Fixes: 58db7c5fbe7d ("mm/hugetlb: fix avoid_reserve to allow taking folio from subpool")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@kernel.org>
> [ david: simplify comments and improve description; updated Fixes ]
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>

Commit message is still hard to read :| (or maybe HugeTLB is just awful
and no amount of massaging the message will ever help this).

Maybe note - this is an accounting error only, the pages do not leak.

Was able to reproduce the issue with a UFFDIO_COPY the provides an invalid
invalid source address (src=0).

1. Create the pool and mapping (hugetlbfs w/ pagesize=2M,min_size=2M)
2. invalid UFFDIO_COPY  (kernel allocates, fails the, rolls back)
3. Close uffd, cause a normal fault
4. Unmap and truncate the file
5. Remove the file and unmount

                  Base                    Patch
step 2:  total=2 free=2 rsvd=1     total=2 free=2 rsvd=1
step 3:	 total=2 free=2 rsvd=2     total=2 free=2 rsvd=1*
step 5:  total=2 free=2 rsvd=1     total=2 free=2 rsvd=0*

Result looks correct to me.
The code hurts my brain but looks reasonable.

Tested-by: Gregory Price (Meta) <gourry@gourry.net>
Reviewed-by: Gregory Price (Meta) <gourry@gourry.net>

-- 
~Gregory