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authorGregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>2026-09-12 07:08:32 -0400
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2026-10-12 21:26:12 -0700
commit5445a6359d717354dd76d509b8e693f13403ec61 (patch)
treef21b32b98355f8d70853e3fcbbdbf3dcae9c607a /tools/perf/scripts/python
parent43f046860e81d0a6244a5d91a585289e512f6eef (diff)
mm/madvise: reclaim isolated folios if PTE restart fails
MADV_PAGEOUT collects isolated folios on a local list before reclaiming them after the PTE walk. The reschedule path drops the PTE lock and then restarts the mapping with pte_offset_map_lock(). A concurrent operation can remove or replace the PTE table while the lock is dropped, causing pte_offset_map_lock() to return NULL. Returning directly in that case bypasses reclaim_pages(), leaving the collected folios off the LRU with elevated references. This results in a permanent memory leak. nr_isolated_anon increases reliably and does not decrease when the process dies. Route the failure through the existing cleanup path so any isolated folios are reclaimed or put back. Simplest userland pseudo-code reproducer: p = mmap(PMD_SIZE, ANONYMOUS); touch_every_page(p, PMD_SIZE); parallel { while (1) madvise(p, PMD_SIZE, MADV_PAGEOUT); while (1) { madvise(p, PMD_SIZE, MADV_DONTNEED); touch_every_page(p, PMD_SIZE); } } Reproduced in qemu trivially with some explicit widening of the race window. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260912110832.3203902-1-gourry@gourry.net Fixes: b2f557a21bc8 ("mm/madvise: add cond_resched() in madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range()") Signed-off-by: Gregory Price (Meta) <gourry@gourry.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260821150912.183976-1-gourry@gourry.net Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org> Assisted-by: LLM Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jiexun Wang <wangjiexun@tinylab.org> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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