[PATCH] mm/memory-failure: fix refcount leak on soft-offline LBS folio

[email protected] Mon, 3 Aug 2026 14:00:01 +0800
Newsgroups org.kvack.linux-mm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: liyouhong <[email protected]>

soft_offline_in_use_page() runs with a folio reference taken by
get_hwpoison_page() (or by the caller when MF_COUNT_INCREASED is set,
e.g. madvise(MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE)).

made soft-offline skip splitting when min_order_for_split()
is non-zero, so large-block-size folios stay intact.  That early
return -EBUSY path never drops the reference.

The other failure path is fine: try_to_split_thp_page(..., release=true)
puts the page when the split itself fails.  memory_failure() also puts
explicitly on its analogous unsplit path.

Split the new_order != 0 case out and folio_put() before returning.

Fixes: 689b8986776c ("mm/memory-failure: improve large block size folio handling")
Signed-off-by: liyouhong <[email protected]>
---
 mm/memory-failure.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 51508a55c405..b14d4d42063b 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -2801,9 +2801,19 @@ static int soft_offline_in_use_page(struct page *page)
 		 * NOTE: if minimizing the number of soft offline pages is
 		 * preferred, split it to non-zero new_order like it is done in
 		 * memory_failure().
+		 *
+		 * Drop the ref from get_hwpoison_page()/MF_COUNT_INCREASED;
+		 * try_to_split_thp_page(..., release=true) does that itself
+		 * when the split fails.
 		 */
-		if (new_order || try_to_split_thp_page(page, /* new_order= */ 0,
-						       /* release= */ true)) {
+		if (new_order) {
+			pr_info("%#lx: order-%d folio cannot soft offline\n",
+				pfn, new_order);
+			folio_put(folio);
+			return -EBUSY;
+		}
+		if (try_to_split_thp_page(page, /* new_order= */ 0,
+					 /* release= */ true)) {
 			pr_info("%#lx: thp split failed\n", pfn);
 			return -EBUSY;
 		}
-- 
2.25.1