On Mon 21-11-11 14:18:29, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <r...@sisk.pl> wrote:
> >
> > Subject : hugetlb oops on 3.1.0-rc8-devel
> > Submitter : Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net>
> > Date : 2011-11-01 22:20
> > Message-ID :
> > calcetrw1mpvcz2to5roaz1r6vnno+srhr-dha6_pkri2qic...@mail.gmail.com
> > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=132018604426692&w=2
>
> Despite the subject line, that's not an oops, it's a BUG_ON().
>
> And it *should* be fixed by commit ea4039a34c4c ("hugetlb: release
> pages in the error path of hugetlb_cow()") although I don't think Andy
> ever confirmed that (since it was hard to trigger).
AFAICS the issue has been introduced by 0fe6e20b (hugetlb, rmap:
add reverse mapping for hugepage) in 2.6.36-rc1 so this is a stable
material. I do not see the patch in any stable branch so here we go.
The patch is on top of 3.0.y branch and it applies as is to 3.1.y
as well.
---
>From fdaa4aaa008cce149a5fd60934112acd8988e0b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hillf Danton <dhi...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:36:12 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] hugetlb: release pages in the error path of hugetlb_cow()
commit ea4039a34c4c206d015d34a49d0b00868e37db1d upstream.
If we fail to prepare an anon_vma, the {new, old}_page should be released,
or they will leak.
Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhi...@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jwei...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index bfcf153..2b57cd9 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2415,6 +2415,8 @@ retry_avoidcopy:
* anon_vma prepared.
*/
if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma))) {
+ page_cache_release(new_page);
+ page_cache_release(old_page);
/* Caller expects lock to be held */
spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
return VM_FAULT_OOM;
--
1.7.7.3
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
SUSE LINUX s.r.o.
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190 00 Praha 9
Czech Republic
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