FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm: hugetlb: fix incorrect fallback for subpool" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x a833a693a490ecff8ba377654c6d4d333718b6b1
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2025051908-repulsive-crazed-331a@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' HEAD^..

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thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From a833a693a490ecff8ba377654c6d4d333718b6b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wupeng Ma <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 14:26:33 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: fix incorrect fallback for subpool

During our testing with hugetlb subpool enabled, we observe that hstate->resv_huge_pages may underflow into negative values. Root cause analysis reveals a race condition in subpool reservation fallback handling as follow:

hugetlb_reserve_pages()

    /* Attempt subpool reservation */
    gbl_reserve = hugepage_subpool_get_pages(spool, chg);

    /* Global reservation may fail after subpool allocation */
    if (hugetlb_acct_memory(h, gbl_reserve) < 0)
        goto out_put_pages;

out_put_pages:

    /* This incorrectly restores reservation to subpool */
    hugepage_subpool_put_pages(spool, chg);

When hugetlb_acct_memory() fails after subpool allocation, the current implementation over-commits subpool reservations by returning the full 'chg' value instead of the actual allocated 'gbl_reserve' amount. This discrepancy propagates to global reservations during subsequent releases, eventually causing resv_huge_pages underflow.

This problem can be trigger easily with the following steps:
1. reverse hugepage for hugeltb allocation
2. mount hugetlbfs with min_size to enable hugetlb subpool
3. alloc hugepages with two task(make sure the second will fail due to insufficient amount of hugepages)
4. with for a few seconds and repeat step 3 which will make hstate->resv_huge_pages to go below zero.

To fix this problem, return corrent amount of pages to subpool during the fallback after hugepage_subpool_get_pages is called.

index 6ea1be71aa42..7ae38bfb9096 100644
@@ -3010,7 +3010,7 @@ struct folio *alloc_hugetlb_folio(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	struct hugepage_subpool *spool = subpool_vma(vma);
 	struct hstate *h = hstate_vma(vma);
 	struct folio *folio;
-	long retval, gbl_chg;
+	long retval, gbl_chg, gbl_reserve;
 	map_chg_state map_chg;
 	int ret, idx;
 	struct hugetlb_cgroup *h_cg = NULL;

@@ -3163,8 +3163,16 @@ struct folio *alloc_hugetlb_folio(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_cgroup_rsvd(idx, pages_per_huge_page(h),
 						    h_cg);
 out_subpool_put:
-	if (map_chg)
-		hugepage_subpool_put_pages(spool, 1);
+	/*
+	 * put page to subpool iff the quota of subpool's rsv_hpages is used
+	 * during hugepage_subpool_get_pages.
+	 */
+	if (map_chg && !gbl_chg) {
+		gbl_reserve = hugepage_subpool_put_pages(spool, 1);
+		hugetlb_acct_memory(h, -gbl_reserve);
+	}
+
+
 out_end_reservation:
 	if (map_chg != MAP_CHG_ENFORCED)
 		vma_end_reservation(h, vma, addr);

@@ -7239,7 +7247,7 @@ bool hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode,
 					struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 					vm_flags_t vm_flags)
 {
-	long chg = -1, add = -1;
+	long chg = -1, add = -1, spool_resv, gbl_resv;
 	struct hstate *h = hstate_inode(inode);
 	struct hugepage_subpool *spool = subpool_inode(inode);
 	struct resv_map *resv_map;

@@ -7374,8 +7382,16 @@ bool hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode,
 	return true;
 
 out_put_pages:
-	/* put back original number of pages, chg */
-	(void)hugepage_subpool_put_pages(spool, chg);
+	spool_resv = chg - gbl_reserve;
+	if (spool_resv) {
+		/* put sub pool's reservation back, chg - gbl_reserve */
+		gbl_resv = hugepage_subpool_put_pages(spool, spool_resv);
+		/*
+		 * subpool's reserved pages can not be put back due to race,
+		 * return to hstate.
+		 */
+		hugetlb_acct_memory(h, -gbl_resv);
+	}
 out_uncharge_cgroup:
 	hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_cgroup_rsvd(hstate_index(h),
 					    chg * pages_per_huge_page(h), h_cg);