linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] userfaultfd/shmem: fix minor fault page leak

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Date:   Mon, 22 Mar 2021 17:00:31 -0400
From:   Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To:     Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@...gle.com>
Cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@...gle.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Shaohua Li <shli@...com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Wang Qing <wangqing@...o.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, Brian Geffon <bgeffon@...gle.com>,
        Cannon Matthews <cannonmatthews@...gle.com>,
        "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
        Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>,
        Oliver Upton <oupton@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] userfaultfd/shmem: fix minor fault page leak

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 01:48:35PM -0700, Axel Rasmussen wrote:
> This fix is analogous to Peter Xu's fix for hugetlb [0]. If we don't
> put_page() after getting the page out of the page cache, we leak the
> reference.
> 
> The fix can be verified by checking /proc/meminfo and running the
> userfaultfd selftest in shmem mode. Without the fix, we see MemFree /
> MemAvailable steadily decreasing with each run of the test. With the
> fix, memory is correctly freed after the test program exits.
> 
> Fixes: 00da60b9d0a0 ("userfaultfd: support minor fault handling for shmem")
> Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>

-- 
Peter Xu