mm: fix page leak with multiple threads mapping the same page
We have an application with a lot of threads that use a shared mmap backed by tmpfs mounted with -o huge=within_size. This application started leaking loads of huge pages when we upgraded to a recent kernel. Using the page ref tracepoints and a BPF program written by Tejun Heo we were able to determine that these pages would have multiple refcounts from the page fault path, but when it came to unmap time we wouldn't drop the number of refs we had added from the faults. I wrote a reproducer that mmap'ed a file backed by tmpfs with -o huge=always, and then spawned 20 threads all looping faulting random offsets in this map, while using madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) randomly for huge page aligned ranges. This very quickly reproduced the problem. The problem here is that we check for the case that we have multiple threads faulting in a range that was previously unmapped. One thread maps the PMD, the other thread loses the race and then returns 0. However at this point we already have the page, and we are no longer putting this page into the processes address space, and so we leak the page. We actually did the correct thing prior to f9ce0be7, however it looks like Kirill copied what we do in the anonymous page case. In the anonymous page case we don't yet have a page, so we don't have to drop a reference on anything. Previously we did the correct thing for file based faults by returning VM_FAULT_NOPAGE so we correctly drop the reference on the page we faulted in. Fix this by returning VM_FAULT_NOPAGE in the pmd_devmap_trans_unstable() case, this makes us drop the ref on the page properly, and now my reproducer no longer leaks the huge pages. [josef@toxicpanda.com: v2] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e90c8f0dbae836632b669c2afc434006a00d4a67.1657721478.git.josef@toxicpanda.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2b798acfd95c9ab9395fe85e8d5a835e2e10a920.1657051137.git.josef@toxicpanda.com Fixes: f9ce0be7 ("mm: Cleanup faultaround and finish_fault() codepaths") Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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