[RFC PATCH] mm/cma: don't release CMA pages still in use
From: Rik van Riel
Date: Sun Aug 09 2026 - 21:09:17 EST
When a driver calls dma_free_contiguous() before quiescing DMA, the
page still has a reference from the device. put_page_testzero() there
returns false, ret is incremented, WARN fires, but the code proceeds
to free_contig_frozen_range() putting a live page onto buddy and
clearing the bitmap. Later cma_alloc() hands the same PFN to a new
owner while the original holder still references it.
A concurrent put_page() that drops the last reference between the
testzero loop and free_contig_frozen_range() can double-queue the page
via page->lru, corrupting buddy lists.
Fix by freeing already-frozen pages in contiguous runs via
__cma_release_frozen(), while skipping still-referenced pages.
The CMA address space for pages that are still in use at
cma_release() time gets leaked, but the pages themselves
will get freed once the user drops the last refcount.
This change should be safe because nothing can get reallocated while it
is still in use.
Fixes: 9bda131c6093 ("mm: cma: add cma_alloc_frozen{_compound}()")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: Hermes:muse-spark-1.2
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/cma.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
index a13ce4999b39..66952bb03abb 100644
--- a/mm/cma.c
+++ b/mm/cma.c
@@ -1018,20 +1018,42 @@ bool cma_release(struct cma *cma, const struct page *pages,
unsigned long count)
{
struct cma_memrange *cmr;
- unsigned long ret = 0;
+ unsigned long skipped = 0;
unsigned long i, pfn;
+ unsigned long base_pfn;
+ unsigned long run_start = 0;
+ unsigned long run_len = 0;
cmr = find_cma_memrange(cma, pages, count);
if (!cmr)
return false;
- pfn = page_to_pfn(pages);
- for (i = 0; i < count; i++, pfn++)
- ret += !put_page_testzero(pfn_to_page(pfn));
-
- WARN(ret, "%lu pages are still in use!\n", ret);
+ base_pfn = page_to_pfn(pages);
+ pfn = base_pfn;
+ for (i = 0; i < count; i++, pfn++) {
+ if (put_page_testzero(pfn_to_page(pfn))) {
+ /* Add it to the batch. */
+ if (run_len == 0)
+ run_start = pfn;
+ run_len++;
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * This page is still in use! Free the freeable
+ * pages encountered so far, but skip this page.
+ */
+ if (run_len) {
+ __cma_release_frozen(cma, cmr,
+ pfn_to_page(run_start),
+ run_len);
+ run_len = 0;
+ }
+ skipped++;
+ }
+ }
+ if (run_len)
+ __cma_release_frozen(cma, cmr, pfn_to_page(run_start), run_len);
- __cma_release_frozen(cma, cmr, pages, count);
+ WARN(skipped, "%lu pages are still in use!\n", skipped);
return true;
}
--
2.55.0