In alloc_hugetlb_folio(), a single h_cg pointer is used for both the rsvd
and non-rsvd hugetlb cgroup charges. When map_chg is set,
hugetlb_cgroup_charge_cgroup_rsvd() stores the charged cgroup in h_cg, but
the immediately following hugetlb_cgroup_charge_cgroup() overwrites h_cg
with the non-rsvd cgroup pointer.
As a result, hugetlb_cgroup_commit_charge_rsvd() stores the wrong
(non-rsvd) cgroup pointer into the folio's rsvd slot.
When the folio is later freed, free_huge_folio() unconditionally calls
both hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_folio() and
hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_folio_rsvd(). The rsvd uncharge reads back the
wrong cgroup from the folio and decrements a counter that was never
charged for that cgroup, causing a page_counter underflow:
page_counter underflow: -512 nr_pages=512
WARNING: mm/page_counter.c:61 at page_counter_cancel
Fix this by introducing a separate h_cg_rsvd pointer exclusively for the
rsvd charge path, keeping the rsvd and non-rsvd charges fully independent
through their charge, commit, and error uncharge paths.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260328065534.346053-1-kartikey406@gmail.com
Fixes: 08cf9faf7558 ("hugetlb_cgroup: support noreserve mappings")
Reported-by: syzbot+226c1f947186f8fef796@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=226c1f947186f8fef796
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
map_chg_state map_chg;
int ret, idx;
struct hugetlb_cgroup *h_cg = NULL;
+ struct hugetlb_cgroup *h_cg_rsvd = NULL;
gfp_t gfp = htlb_alloc_mask(h) | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL;
idx = hstate_index(h);
*/
if (map_chg) {
ret = hugetlb_cgroup_charge_cgroup_rsvd(
- idx, pages_per_huge_page(h), &h_cg);
+ idx, pages_per_huge_page(h), &h_cg_rsvd);
if (ret)
goto out_subpool_put;
}
*/
if (map_chg) {
hugetlb_cgroup_commit_charge_rsvd(idx, pages_per_huge_page(h),
- h_cg, folio);
+ h_cg_rsvd, folio);
}
spin_unlock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
out_uncharge_cgroup_reservation:
if (map_chg)
hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_cgroup_rsvd(idx, pages_per_huge_page(h),
- h_cg);
+ h_cg_rsvd);
out_subpool_put:
/*
* put page to subpool iff the quota of subpool's rsv_hpages is used