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From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
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Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	 iommu@lists.linux.dev,
	"David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>,
	 stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] mm/gup: limit pagecache folio refcount when grabbing references
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2026 14:10:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261105-refcount_overflow_stable-v1-5-70b9c655da3e@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261105-refcount_overflow_stable-v1-0-70b9c655da3e@kernel.org>

Let's replace our existing safety check by the new
folio_ref_count_over_limit() check in fast and slow GUP before acquiring
additional references or pins.

Keep it simple and use the check for all folio types.

Drop the WARN_ON_ONCE(), because apparently these things can currently
happen with large pagecache folios.

Keep the zero-refcount rejection if the refcount is 0.

Fixes: 800d8c63b2e9 ("shmem: add huge pages support")
Fixes: 99cb0dbd47a1 ("mm,thp: add read-only THP support for (non-shmem) FS")
Fixes: 793917d997df ("mm/readahead: Add large folio readahead")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
---
 mm/gup.c | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 2ab42fc6834e5..db9db6b2a4662 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ static inline struct folio *try_get_folio(struct page *page, int refs)
 
 retry:
 	folio = page_folio(page);
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(folio_ref_count(folio) < 0))
+	if (unlikely(folio_ref_count_over_limit(folio)))
 		return NULL;
 	if (unlikely(!folio_ref_try_add(folio, refs)))
 		return NULL;
@@ -140,7 +140,11 @@ static void gup_put_folio(struct folio *folio, int refs, unsigned int flags)
 int __must_check try_grab_folio(struct folio *folio, int refs,
 				unsigned int flags)
 {
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(folio_ref_count(folio) <= 0))
+	if ((flags & (FOLL_GET | FOLL_PIN)) &&
+	    unlikely(folio_ref_count_over_limit(folio)))
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!folio_ref_count(folio)))
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	if (unlikely(!(flags & FOLL_PCI_P2PDMA) && folio_is_pci_p2pdma(folio)))
@@ -1482,8 +1486,8 @@ static long __get_user_pages(struct mm_struct *mm,
 				struct folio *folio = page_folio(page);
 
 				/*
-				 * Since we already hold refcount on the
-				 * large folio, this should never fail.
+				 * Grabbing more references can fail once we
+				 * hit folio refcount limits.
 				 */
 				if (try_grab_folio(folio, page_increm - 1,
 						   gup_flags)) {

-- 
2.43.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-11-05 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-05 13:10 [PATCH 0/5] mm: limit pagecache folio refcount David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-05 13:10 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm: limit pagecache folio refcount when mapping pages David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-05 13:10 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm: limit pagecache folio refcount when splicing into pipes David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-05 13:10 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm/mmu_gather: flush pending references early before the folio limit David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-05 13:10 ` [PATCH 4/5] iommufd: fix cleanup when adding memfd folio pins fails David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-05 13:10 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-11-05 17:51 ` [PATCH 0/5] mm: limit pagecache folio refcount David Hildenbrand (Arm)

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