From: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
To: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Mika Penttilä" <mpenttil@redhat.com>,
"Balbir Singh" <balbirs@nvidia.com>,
"Kiryl Shutsemau" <kas@kernel.org>,
matthew.brost@intel.com, npache@redhat.com, david@kernel.org,
"Usama Arif" <usamaarif642@gmail.com>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
rakie.kim@sk.com, byungchul@sk.com, gourry@gourry.net,
ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com, apopple@nvidia.com,
riel@surriel.com, shakeel.butt@linux.dev,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/migrate_device: fix folio refcount leak on folio_split_unmapped failure
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 13:47:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3dd4399f-a138-4ec0-b3a8-0ce200423ebe@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1EAE2E58-7A71-4B59-B1EF-3A3C753DDC1E@nvidia.com>
>
> I do not think there is a need to explain why there is no folio_put()
> below. How about below?
>
> 1. it makes sure the folio has the right ref count,
> 2. it explains folio_get() is for split_huge_pmd_address() instead of
> folio_split_unmapped().
>
> diff --git a/mm/migrate_device.c b/mm/migrate_device.c
> index 0a8b31939640f..0b31b878210ba 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate_device.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate_device.c
> @@ -914,8 +914,14 @@ static int migrate_vma_split_unmapped_folio(struct migrate_vma *migrate,
> unsigned long flags;
> int ret = 0;
>
> + VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(folio_ref_count(folio) == 1);
Thanks! I have sent it in [1]. One thing is, I think you mean over here
folio_ref_count(folio) != 1, right? Thats what the patch has.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260306104409.3915811-1-usama.arif@linux.dev/
> + /*
> + * take a reference, since split_huge_pmd_address() with freeze = true
> + * drops a reference at the end.
> + */
> folio_get(folio);
> split_huge_pmd_address(migrate->vma, addr, true);
> +
> ret = folio_split_unmapped(folio, 0);
> if (ret)
> return ret;
>
>
>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://gist.github.com/uarif1/65e1e816af7aa0ae38dd6ec64d62a993
>>>> [2] https://gist.github.com/uarif1/79ea9500667daa4e2ef09cb5d308f041
>>>> [3] https://gist.github.com/uarif1/8a35a6c65ba8b3a1c1dfe72dc30e821d
>>>
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Yan, Zi
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Yan, Zi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-06 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-04 12:01 Usama Arif
2026-03-04 14:00 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-03-04 15:17 ` Zi Yan
2026-03-04 21:48 ` Balbir Singh
2026-03-04 21:54 ` Zi Yan
2026-03-04 22:02 ` Matthew Brost
2026-03-04 22:09 ` Balbir Singh
2026-03-04 23:28 ` Usama Arif
2026-03-05 6:09 ` Mika Penttilä
2026-03-05 11:44 ` Usama Arif
2026-03-05 12:09 ` Mika Penttilä
2026-03-05 16:36 ` Usama Arif
2026-03-05 16:39 ` Zi Yan
2026-03-05 17:00 ` Usama Arif
2026-03-05 17:32 ` Zi Yan
2026-03-06 10:47 ` Usama Arif [this message]
2026-03-05 22:04 ` Balbir Singh
2026-03-06 10:51 ` Usama Arif
2026-03-04 15:25 ` Joshua Hahn
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