linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] A couple hugetlbfs fixes

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Date:   Fri,  8 Mar 2019 14:48:21 -0800
From:   Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
Cc:     Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] A couple hugetlbfs fixes

I stumbled on these two hugetlbfs issues while looking at other things:
- The 'restore reserve' functionality at page free time should not
  be adjusting subpool counts.
- A BUG can be triggered (not easily) due to temporarily mapping a
  page before doing a COW.

Both are described in detail in the commit message of the patches.
I would appreciate comments from Davidlohr Bueso as one patch is
directly related to code he added in commit 8382d914ebf7.

I did not cc stable as the first problem has been around since reserves
were added to hugetlbfs and nobody has noticed.  The second is very hard
to hit/reproduce.

Mike Kravetz (2):
  huegtlbfs: on restore reserve error path retain subpool reservation
  hugetlb: use same fault hash key for shared and private mappings

 mm/hugetlb.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

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