kernel-aes67/Documentation/mm
Oscar Salvador f5c12105c1 mm,page_owner: fix refcount imbalance
Current code does not contemplate scenarios were an allocation and free
operation on the same pages do not handle it in the same amount at once. 
To give an example, page_alloc_exact(), where we will allocate a page of
enough order to stafisfy the size request, but we will free the remainings
right away.

In the above example, we will increment the stack_record refcount only
once, but we will decrease it the same number of times as number of unused
pages we have to free.  This will lead to a warning because of refcount
imbalance.

Fix this by recording the number of base pages in the refcount field.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240404070702.2744-3-osalvador@suse.de
Reported-by: syzbot+41bbfdb8d41003d12c0f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/00000000000090e8ff0613eda0e5@google.com
Fixes: 217b2119b9 ("mm,page_owner: implement the tracking of the stacks count")
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-04-16 15:39:49 -07:00
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damon Docs/mm/damon/design: remove the details for pageout as paddr doesn't use MADV_PAGEOUT 2024-03-04 17:01:17 -08:00
active_mm.rst lazy tlb: allow lazy tlb mm refcounting to be configurable 2023-03-28 16:20:08 -07:00
arch_pgtable_helpers.rst Documentation/mm: drop pte_bad() descriptions from arch page table helpers 2023-12-10 16:51:40 -08:00
balance.rst - Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add 2023-02-23 17:09:35 -08:00
bootmem.rst
free_page_reporting.rst docs/mm: remove useless markup 2023-02-02 10:18:05 -07:00
highmem.rst Documentation work keeps chugging along; stuff for 6.6 includes: 2023-08-30 20:05:42 -07:00
hmm.rst docs/mm: remove references to hmm_mirror ops and clean typos 2023-08-28 12:41:17 -06:00
hugetlbfs_reserv.rst mm: convert free_huge_page() to free_huge_folio() 2023-08-21 14:28:43 -07:00
hwpoison.rst Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
index.rst mm: kill frontswap 2023-08-21 13:37:26 -07:00
ksm.rst docs/mm: remove useless markup 2023-02-02 10:18:05 -07:00
memory-model.rst docs/mm: remove useless markup 2023-02-02 10:18:05 -07:00
mmu_notifier.rst docs/mm: remove useless markup 2023-02-02 10:18:05 -07:00
multigen_lru.rst mm: multi-gen LRU: improve design doc 2023-03-28 16:20:07 -07:00
numa.rst docs/mm: remove useless markup 2023-02-02 10:18:05 -07:00
oom.rst
overcommit-accounting.rst docs: mm: fix vm overcommit documentation for OVERCOMMIT_GUESS 2023-10-10 13:35:55 -06:00
page_allocation.rst
page_cache.rst ubifs: Convert ubifs_vm_page_mkwrite() to use a folio 2024-02-25 21:08:00 +01:00
page_frags.rst docs/mm: remove useless markup 2023-02-02 10:18:05 -07:00
page_migration.rst Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
page_owner.rst mm,page_owner: fix refcount imbalance 2024-04-16 15:39:49 -07:00
page_reclaim.rst docs/mm: Physical Memory: remove useless markup 2023-02-02 10:18:04 -07:00
page_table_check.rst mm: page_table_check: Make it dependent on EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM 2023-05-29 16:14:28 +01:00
page_tables.rst Documentation/page_tables: Add info about MMU/TLB and Page Faults 2023-10-10 13:35:55 -06:00
physical_memory.rst docs/mm: Physical Memory: Fix grammar 2023-04-11 16:16:50 -06:00
process_addrs.rst
remap_file_pages.rst docs/mm: remove useless markup 2023-02-02 10:18:05 -07:00
shmfs.rst
slab.rst
slub.rst mm/slub: make the description of slab_min_objects helpful in doc 2024-01-22 10:31:08 +01:00
split_page_table_lock.rst mm: remove pgtable_{pmd, pte}_page_{ctor, dtor}() wrappers 2023-08-21 13:37:58 -07:00
swap.rst
transhuge.rst mm/rmap: rename COMPOUND_MAPPED to ENTIRELY_MAPPED 2023-12-29 11:58:56 -08:00
unevictable-lru.rst Documentation: stop referring to page_remove_rmap() 2023-12-29 11:58:54 -08:00
vmalloc.rst
vmalloced-kernel-stacks.rst
vmemmap_dedup.rst docs: update link to powerpc/vmemmap_dedup.rst 2023-10-10 13:35:55 -06:00
z3fold.rst docs/mm: remove useless markup 2023-02-02 10:18:05 -07:00
zsmalloc.rst mm: add orphaned kernel-doc to the rst files. 2023-08-24 16:20:31 -07:00