mm/nommu: fix memory leak

Maxime reported the following memory leak regression due to commit
dbc8358c7237 ("mm/nommu: use alloc_pages_exact() rather than its own
implementation").

On v3.19, I am facing a memory leak.  Each time I run a command one page
is lost.  Here an example with busybox's free command:

  / # free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          7928       1972       5956          0          0        492
  -/+ buffers/cache:       1480       6448
  / # free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          7928       1976       5952          0          0        492
  -/+ buffers/cache:       1484       6444
  / # free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          7928       1980       5948          0          0        492
  -/+ buffers/cache:       1488       6440
  / # free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          7928       1984       5944          0          0        492
  -/+ buffers/cache:       1492       6436
  / # free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          7928       1988       5940          0          0        492
  -/+ buffers/cache:       1496       6432

At some point, the system fails to sastisfy 256KB allocations:

  free: page allocation failure: order:6, mode:0xd0
  CPU: 0 PID: 67 Comm: free Not tainted 3.19.0-05389-gacf2cf1-dirty #64
  Hardware name: STM32 (Device Tree Support)
    show_stack+0xb/0xc
    warn_alloc_failed+0x97/0xbc
    __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x295/0x35c
    __get_free_pages+0xb/0x24
    alloc_pages_exact+0x19/0x24
    do_mmap_pgoff+0x423/0x658
    vm_mmap_pgoff+0x3f/0x4e
    load_flat_file+0x20d/0x4f8
    load_flat_binary+0x3f/0x26c
    search_binary_handler+0x51/0xe4
    do_execveat_common+0x271/0x35c
    do_execve+0x19/0x1c
    ret_fast_syscall+0x1/0x4a
  Mem-info:
  Normal per-cpu:
  CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
  active_anon:0 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:0
   active_file:0 inactive_file:0 isolated_file:0
   unevictable:123 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
   free:1515 slab_reclaimable:17 slab_unreclaimable:139
   mapped:0 shmem:0 pagetables:0 bounce:0
   free_cma:0
  Normal free:6060kB min:352kB low:440kB high:528kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:492kB isolated(anon):0ks
  lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0
  Normal: 23*4kB (U) 22*8kB (U) 24*16kB (U) 23*32kB (U) 23*64kB (U) 23*128kB (U) 1*256kB (U) 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 6060kB
  123 total pagecache pages
  2048 pages of RAM
  1538 free pages
  66 reserved pages
  109 slab pages
  -46 pages shared
  0 pages swap cached
  nommu: Allocation of length 221184 from process 67 (free) failed
  Normal per-cpu:
  CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
  active_anon:0 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:0
   active_file:0 inactive_file:0 isolated_file:0
   unevictable:123 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
   free:1515 slab_reclaimable:17 slab_unreclaimable:139
   mapped:0 shmem:0 pagetables:0 bounce:0
   free_cma:0
  Normal free:6060kB min:352kB low:440kB high:528kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:492kB isolated(anon):0ks
  lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0
  Normal: 23*4kB (U) 22*8kB (U) 24*16kB (U) 23*32kB (U) 23*64kB (U) 23*128kB (U) 1*256kB (U) 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 6060kB
  123 total pagecache pages
  Unable to allocate RAM for process text/data, errno 12 SEGV

This problem happens because we allocate ordered page through
__get_free_pages() in do_mmap_private() in some cases and we try to free
individual pages rather than ordered page in free_page_series().  In
this case, freeing pages whose refcount is not 0 won't be freed to the
page allocator so memory leak happens.

To fix the problem, this patch changes __get_free_pages() to
alloc_pages_exact() since alloc_pages_exact() returns
physically-contiguous pages but each pages are refcounted.

Fixes: dbc8358c7237 ("mm/nommu: use alloc_pages_exact() rather than its own implementation").
Reported-by: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.19]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 7296360fc057e5bbf67b9904501fdbe98a97b1b2..3e67e7538ecf048b32463abdf8c7eaf1107dcd15 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -1213,11 +1213,9 @@ static int do_mmap_private(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
        if (sysctl_nr_trim_pages && total - point >= sysctl_nr_trim_pages) {
                total = point;
                kdebug("try to alloc exact %lu pages", total);
-               base = alloc_pages_exact(len, GFP_KERNEL);
-       } else {
-               base = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, order);
        }
 
+       base = alloc_pages_exact(total << PAGE_SHIFT, GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!base)
                goto enomem;