Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: fix subpool minimum reservation rollback

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon,  7 Sep 2026 21:20:55 +0800 Jinmeng Zhou <jinmengzhou22@gmail.com> wrote:

> When a reservation request is partially covered by a subpool minimum and
> the remaining global reservation fails, the error path first calls
> hugepage_subpool_put_pages() for the subpool-backed portion. It removes the
> failed global portion from used_hpages only afterwards.
> 
> hugepage_subpool_put_pages() uses used_hpages to decide whether rsv_hpages
> should be restored. Since used_hpages still includes the global portion, it
> can remain at or above min_hpages and prevent that restoration. It then
> reports the subpool reservation as releasable, causing
> hugetlb_acct_memory() to incorrectly decrement h->resv_huge_pages.
> 
> This was reproduced with four 2 MB huge pages and a hugetlbfs mount with
> size=10M,min_size=8M. After a successful three-page reservation, a two-page
> reservation which needed one subpool page and one global page failed with
> -ENOMEM. HugePages_Rsvd incorrectly dropped from four to three even though
> the subpool minimum was still four pages.
> 
> Roll back the failed global portion from used_hpages first, so that
> hugepage_subpool_put_pages() evaluates the minimum reservation against the
> current usage and returns the correct global adjustment.

Please cen we get some review of this cc:stable bugfix?

Thanks.

> Fixes: a833a693a490 ("mm: hugetlb: fix incorrect fallback for subpool")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jinmeng Zhou <zhoujinmeng@bytedance.com>
> ---
>  mm/hugetlb.c | 18 +++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 785772845795..3e3cda181e72 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -6808,15 +6808,6 @@ long hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode,
>  
>  out_put_pages:
>  	spool_resv = chg - gbl_reserve;
> -	if (spool_resv) {
> -		/* put sub pool's reservation back, chg - gbl_reserve */
> -		gbl_resv = hugepage_subpool_put_pages(spool, spool_resv);
> -		/*
> -		 * subpool's reserved pages can not be put back due to race,
> -		 * return to hstate.
> -		 */
> -		hugetlb_acct_memory(h, -gbl_resv);
> -	}
>  	/* Restore used_hpages for pages that failed global reservation */
>  	if (gbl_reserve && spool) {
>  		unsigned long flags;
> @@ -6826,6 +6817,15 @@ long hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode,
>  			spool->used_hpages -= gbl_reserve;
>  		unlock_or_release_subpool(spool, flags);
>  	}
> +	if (spool_resv) {
> +		/* put sub pool's reservation back, chg - gbl_reserve */
> +		gbl_resv = hugepage_subpool_put_pages(spool, spool_resv);
> +		/*
> +		 * subpool's reserved pages can not be put back due to race,
> +		 * return to hstate.
> +		 */
> +		hugetlb_acct_memory(h, -gbl_resv);
> +	}
>  out_uncharge_cgroup:
>  	hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_cgroup_rsvd(hstate_index(h),
>  					    chg * pages_per_huge_page(h), h_cg);
> -- 
> 2.39.5
>