From: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@huawei.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, <ziy@nvidia.com>,
<david@kernel.org>, <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
<baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>, <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
<npache@redhat.com>, <ryan.roberts@arm.com>, <dev.jain@arm.com>,
<baohua@kernel.org>, <lance.yang@linux.dev>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
<linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>, <tujinjiang@huawei.com>
Subject: [bug report] memory leak of xa_node in collapse_file() when rollbacks
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:45:48 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86834731-02ba-43ea-9def-8b8ca156ec4a@huawei.com> (raw)
I encountered a memory leak issue caused by xas_create_range().
collapse_file() calls xas_create_range() to pre-create all slots needed.
If collapse_file() finally fails, these pre-created slots are empty nodes
and aren't destroyed.
I can reproduce it with following steps.
1) create file /tmp/test_madvise_collapse and ftruncate to 4MB size, and then mmap the file
2) memset for the first 2MB
3) madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) for the second 2MB
4) unlink the file
in 3), collapse_file() calls xas_create_range() to expand xarray depth, and fails to collapse
due to the whole 2M region is empty, the code is as following:
collapse_file()
for (index = start; index < end;) {
xas_set(&xas, index);
folio = xas_load(&xas);
VM_BUG_ON(index != xas.xa_index);
if (is_shmem) {
if (!folio) {
/*
* Stop if extent has been truncated or
* hole-punched, and is now completely
* empty.
*/
if (index == start) {
if (!xas_next_entry(&xas, end - 1)) {
result = SCAN_TRUNCATED;
goto xa_locked;
}
}
...
}
collapse_file() rollback path doesn't destroy the pre-created empty nodes.
When the file is deleted, shmem_evict_inode()->shmem_truncate_range() traverses
all entries and calls xas_store(xas, NULL) to delete, if the leaf xa_node that
stores deleted entry becomes emtry, xas_store() will automatically delete the empty
node and delete it's parent is empty too, until parent node isn't empty. shmem_evict_inode()
won't traverse the empty nodes created by xas_create_range() due to these nodes doesn't store
any entries. As a result, these empty nodes are leaked.
At first, I tried to destory the empty nodes when collapse_file() goes to rollback path. However,
collapse_file() only holds xarray lock and may release the lock, so we couldn't prevent concurrent
call of collapse_file(), so the deleted empty nodes may be needed by other collapse_file() calls.
IIUC, xas_create_range() is used to guarantee the xas_store(&xas, new_folio); succeeds. Could we
remove xas_create_range() call and just rollback when we fail to xas_store?
next reply other threads:[~2025-12-18 11:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-18 11:45 Jinjiang Tu [this message]
2025-12-18 11:51 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-18 12:18 ` Jinjiang Tu
2025-12-18 12:49 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-18 13:11 ` Jinjiang Tu
2025-12-25 4:15 ` Shardul Bankar
2025-12-27 1:24 ` Jinjiang Tu
2025-12-30 21:03 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-31 6:29 ` Jinjiang Tu
2025-12-18 12:35 ` Jinjiang Tu
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