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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/hugetlb.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/hugetlb.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 417fc5cdb6ee..a7efb350f5d0 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -5963,6 +5963,13 @@ retry_avoidcopy: /* * If no-one else is actually using this page, we're the exclusive * owner and can reuse this page. + * + * Note that we don't rely on the (safer) folio refcount here, because + * copying the hugetlb folio when there are unexpected (temporary) + * folio references could harm simple fork()+exit() users when + * we run out of free hugetlb folios: we would have to kill processes + * in scenarios that used to work. As a side effect, there can still + * be leaks between processes, for example, with FOLL_GET users. */ if (folio_mapcount(old_folio) == 1 && folio_test_anon(old_folio)) { if (!PageAnonExclusive(&old_folio->page)) { |