FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/hugetlb: add missing hugetlb_lock in" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-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-6.12.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 21cc2b5c5062a256ae9064442d37ebbc23f5aef7
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2025091332-pretzel-gating-6744@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

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

From 21cc2b5c5062a256ae9064442d37ebbc23f5aef7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeongjun Park <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2025 03:21:15 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: add missing hugetlb_lock in
__unmap_hugepage_range()

When restoring a reservation for an anonymous page, we need to check to freeing a surplus. However, __unmap_hugepage_range() causes data race because it reads h->surplus_huge_pages without the protection of hugetlb_lock.

And adjust_reservation is a boolean variable that indicates whether reservations for anonymous pages in each folio should be restored. Therefore, it should be initialized to false for each round of the loop. However, this variable is not initialized to false except when defining the current adjust_reservation variable.

This means that once adjust_reservation is set to true even once within the loop, reservations for anonymous pages will be restored unconditionally in all subsequent rounds, regardless of the folio's state.

To fix this, we need to add the missing hugetlb_lock, unlock the page_table_lock earlier so that we don't lock the hugetlb_lock inside the page_table_lock lock, and initialize adjust_reservation to false on each round within the loop.

index 753f99b4c718..eed59cfb5d21 100644
@@ -5851,7 +5851,7 @@ void __unmap_hugepage_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	spinlock_t *ptl;
 	struct hstate *h = hstate_vma(vma);
 	unsigned long sz = huge_page_size(h);
-	bool adjust_reservation = false;
+	bool adjust_reservation;
 	unsigned long last_addr_mask;
 	bool force_flush = false;
 

@@ -5944,6 +5944,7 @@ void __unmap_hugepage_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 					sz);
 		hugetlb_count_sub(pages_per_huge_page(h), mm);
 		hugetlb_remove_rmap(folio);
+		spin_unlock(ptl);
 
 		/*
 		 * Restore the reservation for anonymous page, otherwise the

@@ -5951,14 +5952,16 @@ void __unmap_hugepage_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		 * If there we are freeing a surplus, do not set the restore
 		 * reservation bit.
 		 */
+		adjust_reservation = false;
+
+		spin_lock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
 		if (!h->surplus_huge_pages && __vma_private_lock(vma) &&
 		    folio_test_anon(folio)) {
 			folio_set_hugetlb_restore_reserve(folio);
 			/* Reservation to be adjusted after the spin lock */
 			adjust_reservation = true;
 		}
-
-		spin_unlock(ptl);
+		spin_unlock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
 
 		/*
 		 * Adjust the reservation for the region that will have the

From: Jeongjun Park <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 21cc2b5c5062a256ae9064442d37ebbc23f5aef7 ]

When restoring a reservation for an anonymous page, we need to check to freeing a surplus. However, __unmap_hugepage_range() causes data race because it reads h->surplus_huge_pages without the protection of hugetlb_lock.

And adjust_reservation is a boolean variable that indicates whether reservations for anonymous pages in each folio should be restored. Therefore, it should be initialized to false for each round of the loop. However, this variable is not initialized to false except when defining the current adjust_reservation variable.

This means that once adjust_reservation is set to true even once within the loop, reservations for anonymous pages will be restored unconditionally in all subsequent rounds, regardless of the folio's state.

To fix this, we need to add the missing hugetlb_lock, unlock the page_table_lock earlier so that we don't lock the hugetlb_lock inside the page_table_lock lock, and initialize adjust_reservation to false on each round within the loop.

---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

index 9c6a4e855481a..f116af53a9392 100644
@@ -5512,7 +5512,7 @@ void __unmap_hugepage_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	struct page *page;
 	struct hstate *h = hstate_vma(vma);
 	unsigned long sz = huge_page_size(h);
-	bool adjust_reservation = false;
+	bool adjust_reservation;
 	unsigned long last_addr_mask;
 	bool force_flush = false;
 

@@ -5604,6 +5604,7 @@ void __unmap_hugepage_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 					sz);
 		hugetlb_count_sub(pages_per_huge_page(h), mm);
 		hugetlb_remove_rmap(page_folio(page));
+		spin_unlock(ptl);
 
 		/*
 		 * Restore the reservation for anonymous page, otherwise the

@@ -5611,14 +5612,16 @@ void __unmap_hugepage_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		 * If there we are freeing a surplus, do not set the restore
 		 * reservation bit.
 		 */
+		adjust_reservation = false;
+
+		spin_lock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
 		if (!h->surplus_huge_pages && __vma_private_lock(vma) &&
 		    folio_test_anon(page_folio(page))) {
 			folio_set_hugetlb_restore_reserve(page_folio(page));
 			/* Reservation to be adjusted after the spin lock */
 			adjust_reservation = true;
 		}
-
-		spin_unlock(ptl);
+		spin_unlock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
 
 		/*
 		 * Adjust the reservation for the region that will have the

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