[PATCH] mm/hugetlb: fix subpool minimum reservation rollback

From: Jinmeng Zhou

Date: Mon Sep 07 2026 - 09:21:53 EST


When a reservation request is partially covered by a subpool minimum and
the remaining global reservation fails, the error path first calls
hugepage_subpool_put_pages() for the subpool-backed portion. It removes the
failed global portion from used_hpages only afterwards.

hugepage_subpool_put_pages() uses used_hpages to decide whether rsv_hpages
should be restored. Since used_hpages still includes the global portion, it
can remain at or above min_hpages and prevent that restoration. It then
reports the subpool reservation as releasable, causing
hugetlb_acct_memory() to incorrectly decrement h->resv_huge_pages.

This was reproduced with four 2 MB huge pages and a hugetlbfs mount with
size=10M,min_size=8M. After a successful three-page reservation, a two-page
reservation which needed one subpool page and one global page failed with
-ENOMEM. HugePages_Rsvd incorrectly dropped from four to three even though
the subpool minimum was still four pages.

Roll back the failed global portion from used_hpages first, so that
hugepage_subpool_put_pages() evaluates the minimum reservation against the
current usage and returns the correct global adjustment.

Fixes: a833a693a490 ("mm: hugetlb: fix incorrect fallback for subpool")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jinmeng Zhou <zhoujinmeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 18 +++++++++---------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 785772845795..3e3cda181e72 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -6808,15 +6808,6 @@ long hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode,

out_put_pages:
spool_resv = chg - gbl_reserve;
- if (spool_resv) {
- /* put sub pool's reservation back, chg - gbl_reserve */
- gbl_resv = hugepage_subpool_put_pages(spool, spool_resv);
- /*
- * subpool's reserved pages can not be put back due to race,
- * return to hstate.
- */
- hugetlb_acct_memory(h, -gbl_resv);
- }
/* Restore used_hpages for pages that failed global reservation */
if (gbl_reserve && spool) {
unsigned long flags;
@@ -6826,6 +6817,15 @@ long hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode,
spool->used_hpages -= gbl_reserve;
unlock_or_release_subpool(spool, flags);
}
+ if (spool_resv) {
+ /* put sub pool's reservation back, chg - gbl_reserve */
+ gbl_resv = hugepage_subpool_put_pages(spool, spool_resv);
+ /*
+ * subpool's reserved pages can not be put back due to race,
+ * return to hstate.
+ */
+ hugetlb_acct_memory(h, -gbl_resv);
+ }
out_uncharge_cgroup:
hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_cgroup_rsvd(hstate_index(h),
chg * pages_per_huge_page(h), h_cg);
--
2.39.5