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From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] iommufd: fix cleanup when adding memfd folio pins fails
Date: Fri,  6 Nov 2026 23:39:14 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261106153914.91168-1-lance.yang@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261105-refcount_overflow_stable-v1-4-70b9c655da3e@kernel.org>


On Thu, Nov 05, 2026 at 02:10:13PM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
>folio_add_pins() can fail after memfd_pin_folios() succeeded pinning a
>folio. Upcoming folio refcount limit checks will make this easier to
>trigger.
>
>Let's fix three problems in the error handling:
>
>1. pfn_reader_release_pins() uses the allocated array size instead of the
>   number of folios returned by memfd_pin_folios(). With large folios,
>   cleanup can unpin uninitialized entries. Remember the number of returned
>   folios and use that during cleanup.
>
>2. pin_memfd_pages() returns on failure without releasing the pins acquired
>   by the current call. Release the per-page pins for folios already
>   expanded into the page array, and the single pins for the remaining
>   folios.
>
>3. pfn_reader_next() returns on failure before updating batch_end_index,
>   even if the batch already contains successfully expanded folios. Update
>   it before propagating the error so cleanup releases those pins as well.
>
>Fixes: 92687c793644 ("iommufd: pfn_reader for file mappings")
>Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
>---

Nothing jumped out at me, so:

Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>

  reply	other threads:[~2026-11-06 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ 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)
2026-11-06  9:11   ` Lance Yang
2026-11-06  9:42   ` Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga
2026-11-06 10:05     ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-06 10:06     ` Lance Yang
2026-11-06 12:38   ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-11-05 13:10 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm: limit pagecache folio refcount when splicing into pipes David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-06  9:50   ` Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga
2026-11-06 10:03   ` Lance Yang
2026-11-06 17:58   ` Josef Bacik
2026-11-06 20:09     ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-06 20:43       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-11-06 20:45         ` 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)
2026-11-06  9:56   ` Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga
2026-11-06 15:15   ` Lance Yang
2026-11-05 13:10 ` [PATCH 4/5] iommufd: fix cleanup when adding memfd folio pins fails David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-06 15:39   ` Lance Yang [this message]
2026-11-06 20:46   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-11-05 13:10 ` [PATCH 5/5] mm/gup: limit pagecache folio refcount when grabbing references David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-06 10:13   ` Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga
2026-11-05 17:51 ` [PATCH 0/5] mm: limit pagecache folio refcount David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-06 19:49 ` Josef Bacik
2026-11-06 20:31   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)

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