Re: [PATCH v3] mm/cma: move put_page_testzero() out of VM_WARN_ON in cma_release()

From: Ron Economos

Date: Wed Feb 25 2026 - 03:18:26 EST


On 2/24/26 19:12, Zi Yan wrote:
When CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is not set, VM_WARN_ON is a NOP. Putting any statement
with side effect inside it is incorrect. Collect all !put_page_testzero()
results and check the sum using WARN instead after the loop. It restores
the same check in free_contig_range() before commit
e0c1326779cc ("mm: page_alloc: add alloc_contig_frozen_{range,pages}()"),
the commit prior to the Fixes one.

Fixes: 9bda131c6093 ("mm: cma: add cma_alloc_frozen{_compound}()")
Reported-by: Ron Economos <re@xxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1b17c38f-30d3-4bb4-a7e1-e74b19ada885@xxxxxxxx/
Suggested-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
From V2:
- Collect !put_page_testzero() to get the right result.

From V1:
- Collect all put_page_testzero() results and do a single WARN after the
loop.

mm/cma.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
index 94b5da468a7d..15cc0ae76c8e 100644
--- a/mm/cma.c
+++ b/mm/cma.c
@@ -1013,6 +1013,7 @@ bool cma_release(struct cma *cma, const struct page *pages,
unsigned long count)
{
struct cma_memrange *cmr;
+ unsigned long ret = 0;
unsigned long i, pfn;
cmr = find_cma_memrange(cma, pages, count);
@@ -1021,7 +1022,9 @@ bool cma_release(struct cma *cma, const struct page *pages,
pfn = page_to_pfn(pages);
for (i = 0; i < count; i++, pfn++)
- VM_WARN_ON(!put_page_testzero(pfn_to_page(pfn)));
+ ret += !put_page_testzero(pfn_to_page(pfn));
+
+ WARN(ret, "%lu pages are still in use!\n", ret);
__cma_release_frozen(cma, cmr, pages, count);

Tested-by: Ron Economos <re@w6rz>