linux/Documentation
Oscar Salvador f5c12105c1 mm,page_owner: fix refcount imbalance
Current code does not contemplate scenarios were an allocation and free
operation on the same pages do not handle it in the same amount at once. 
To give an example, page_alloc_exact(), where we will allocate a page of
enough order to stafisfy the size request, but we will free the remainings
right away.

In the above example, we will increment the stack_record refcount only
once, but we will decrease it the same number of times as number of unused
pages we have to free.  This will lead to a warning because of refcount
imbalance.

Fix this by recording the number of base pages in the refcount field.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240404070702.2744-3-osalvador@suse.de
Reported-by: syzbot+41bbfdb8d41003d12c0f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/00000000000090e8ff0613eda0e5@google.com
Fixes: 217b2119b9 ("mm,page_owner: implement the tracking of the stacks count")
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-04-16 15:39:49 -07:00
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ABI Char/Misc and other driver subsystem updates for 6.9-rc1 2024-03-21 13:21:31 -07:00
accel
accounting
admin-guide x86/bugs: Remove CONFIG_BHI_MITIGATION_AUTO and spectre_bhi=auto 2024-04-12 12:05:54 +02:00
arch Documentation/x86: Fix title underline length 2024-03-25 11:29:16 +01:00
block
bpf bpf, docs: Rename legacy conformance group to packet 2024-03-04 14:31:06 +01:00
cdrom
core-api workqueue: Changes for v6.9 2024-03-11 12:50:42 -07:00
cpu-freq
crypto
dev-tools Documentation: dev-tools: Add link to RV docs 2024-03-29 08:27:21 -06:00
devicetree Merge tag 'drm-msm-next-2024-04-11' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/msm into drm-fixes 2024-04-12 11:01:45 +10:00
doc-guide docs: drop the version constraints for sphinx and dependencies 2024-03-03 08:17:20 -07:00
driver-api virtio: store owner from modules with register_virtio_driver() 2024-04-08 04:11:04 -04:00
fault-injection Fixed case issue with 'fault-injection' in documentation 2024-02-21 13:44:21 -07:00
fb
features membarrier: riscv: Provide core serializing command 2024-02-15 08:04:14 -08:00
filesystems Documentation: filesystems: Add bcachefs toctree 2024-04-06 13:50:26 -04:00
firmware_class
firmware-guide More ACPI updates for 6.9-rc1 2024-03-19 11:15:14 -07:00
fpga
gpu drm-misc-next for v6.9: 2024-02-26 09:51:49 +01:00
hid
hwmon hwmon: (aspeed-g6-pwm-tacho): Support for ASPEED g6 PWM/Fan tach 2024-03-07 10:50:16 -08:00
i2c Documentation: i2c: Document that client auto-detection is a legacy mechanism 2024-03-07 09:42:09 +01:00
iio docs: iio: add documentation for adis16475 driver 2024-02-28 19:26:36 +00:00
images
infiniband
input
isdn
kbuild Documentation/llvm: Note s390 LLVM=1 support with LLVM 18.1.0 and newer 2024-03-31 21:09:50 +09:00
kernel-hacking
leds
litmus-tests
livepatch
locking
maintainer
mhi
misc-devices
mm mm,page_owner: fix refcount imbalance 2024-04-16 15:39:49 -07:00
netlabel
netlink Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2024-03-11 20:38:36 -07:00
networking Documentation: Add documentation for eswitch attribute 2024-03-28 18:20:08 -07:00
nvdimm
nvme
PCI
pcmcia
peci
power Documentation: power: Fix typo in suspend and interrupts doc 2024-03-13 20:51:11 +01:00
process A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes and enhancements. 2024-03-20 09:36:46 -07:00
RCU A moderatly busy cycle for development this time around. 2024-03-12 15:18:34 -07:00
rust arm64 updates for 6.9: 2024-03-14 15:35:42 -07:00
scheduler A single update for the documentation of the base_slice_ns tunable to 2024-03-24 11:11:05 -07:00
scsi
security
sound
sphinx docs: drop the version constraints for sphinx and dependencies 2024-03-03 08:17:20 -07:00
sphinx-static
spi spi: docs: spidev: fix echo command format 2024-03-19 18:37:55 +00:00
staging
target
tee
timers
tools tools/rtla: Add -U/--user-load option to timerlat 2024-03-20 05:39:06 +01:00
trace tracing/user_events: Document multi-format flag 2024-03-18 10:13:16 -04:00
translations - Sumanth Korikkar has taught s390 to allocate hotplug-time page frames 2024-03-14 17:43:30 -07:00
usb Documentation: usb: Document FunctionFS DMABUF API 2024-02-17 17:00:09 +01:00
userspace-api media updates for v6.9-rc1 2024-03-15 11:36:54 -07:00
virt Documentation: kvm/sev: clarify usage of KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP 2024-03-18 19:03:53 -04:00
w1 w1: add UART w1 bus driver 2024-02-15 15:02:33 +01:00
watchdog
wmi platform/x86: wmi: Update documentation regarding _WED 2024-02-27 14:44:31 +02:00
.gitignore
atomic_bitops.txt
atomic_t.txt
Changes
CodingStyle
conf.py docs: Restore "smart quotes" for quotes 2024-02-28 15:48:18 -07:00
docutils.conf
dontdiff
index.rst A moderatly busy cycle for development this time around. 2024-03-12 15:18:34 -07:00
Kconfig
Makefile docs: Makefile: Add dependency to $(YNL_INDEX) for targets other than htmldocs 2024-03-05 11:06:43 -07:00
memory-barriers.txt
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subsystem-apis.rst