[1] was backported to v4.9 stable tree but it introduces pgtable memory leak because with fault retrial, preallocated pagetable could be leaked in second iteration. To fix the problem, this patch backport [2].
[1] 5cf3e5ff95876, mm, memcg: fix reclaim deadlock with writeback [2] b0b9b3df27d10, mm: stop leaking PageTables
Fixes: 5cf3e5ff95876 ("mm, memcg: fix reclaim deadlock with writeback") Cc: Johannes Weiner hannes@cmpxchg.org Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Cc: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Cc: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Cc: Liu Bo bo.liu@linux.alibaba.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [4.9] Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim minchan@kernel.org --- mm/memory.c | 21 +++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 35d8217bb0467..47248dc0b9e1a 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -3329,15 +3329,24 @@ static int do_fault(struct fault_env *fe) { struct vm_area_struct *vma = fe->vma; pgoff_t pgoff = linear_page_index(vma, fe->address); + int ret;
/* The VMA was not fully populated on mmap() or missing VM_DONTEXPAND */ if (!vma->vm_ops->fault) - return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS; - if (!(fe->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)) - return do_read_fault(fe, pgoff); - if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) - return do_cow_fault(fe, pgoff); - return do_shared_fault(fe, pgoff); + ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS; + else if (!(fe->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)) + ret = do_read_fault(fe, pgoff); + else if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) + ret = do_cow_fault(fe, pgoff); + else + ret = do_shared_fault(fe, pgoff); + + /* preallocated pagetable is unused: free it */ + if (fe->prealloc_pte) { + pte_free(vma->vm_mm, fe->prealloc_pte); + fe->prealloc_pte = 0; + } + return ret; }
static int numa_migrate_prep(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,