When a reservation request is partially covered by a subpool minimum and the remaining global reservation fails, the error path first calls hugepage_subpool_put_pages() for the subpool-backed portion. It removes the failed global portion from used_hpages only afterwards. hugepage_subpool_put_pages() uses used_hpages to decide whether rsv_hpages should be restored. Since used_hpages still includes the global portion, it can remain at or above min_hpages and prevent that restoration. It then reports the subpool reservation as releasable, causing hugetlb_acct_memory() to incorrectly decrement h->resv_huge_pages. This was reproduced with four 2 MB huge pages and a hugetlbfs mount with size=10M,min_size=8M. After a successful three-page reservation, a two-page reservation which needed one subpool page and one global page failed with -ENOMEM. HugePages_Rsvd incorrectly dropped from four to three even though the subpool minimum was still four pages. Roll back the failed global portion from used_hpages first, so that hugepage_subpool_put_pages() evaluates the minimum reservation against the current usage and returns the correct global adjustment. Fixes: a833a693a490 ("mm: hugetlb: fix incorrect fallback for subpool") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jinmeng Zhou --- mm/hugetlb.c | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 785772845795..3e3cda181e72 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -6808,15 +6808,6 @@ long hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode, out_put_pages: 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); - } /* Restore used_hpages for pages that failed global reservation */ if (gbl_reserve && spool) { unsigned long flags; @@ -6826,6 +6817,15 @@ long hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode, spool->used_hpages -= gbl_reserve; unlock_or_release_subpool(spool, flags); } + 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); -- 2.39.5