[PATCH 44/46] mm/cma: don't release CMA pages still in use
David Hildenbrand (Arm)
david at kernel.org
Mon Oct 26 16:18:04 PDT 2026
From: Rik van Riel <riel at surriel.com>
When a driver calls dma_free_contiguous() before quiescing DMA, the
page might still have a reference from the device.
put_page_testzero() there returns false, WARN fires, but the code proceeds
to free_contig_frozen_range() putting a live page onto buddy and clearing
the bitmap. A subsequent allocation can hand 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.
Avoid the corruption by not freeing a CMA region if any of the
pages inside are still in use.
Make it explicit in the warning that the driver allowed a leak.
While at it, use page_ref_freeze() to make the semantics clearer and
switch to pr_warn_ratelimited().
Fixes: 9bda131c6093 ("mm: cma: add cma_alloc_frozen{_compound}()")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel at surriel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260811132045.5f114772@fangorn
[ david: use page_ref_freeze() + pr_warn_ratelimited() ]
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david at kernel.org>
---
mm/cma.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
index a10ea37a261da..871f95c9ae9f0 100644
--- a/mm/cma.c
+++ b/mm/cma.c
@@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@ bool cma_release(struct cma *cma, const struct page *pages,
unsigned long count)
{
struct cma_memrange *cmr;
- unsigned long ret = 0;
+ unsigned long leaked = 0;
unsigned long i, pfn;
cmr = find_cma_memrange(cma, pages, count);
@@ -1029,9 +1029,13 @@ bool cma_release(struct cma *cma, const struct page *pages,
pfn = page_to_pfn(pages);
for (i = 0; i < count; i++, pfn++)
- ret += !put_page_testzero(pfn_to_page(pfn));
+ leaked += !page_ref_freeze(pfn_to_page(pfn), 1);
- WARN(ret, "%lu pages are still in use!\n", ret);
+ if (leaked) {
+ pr_warn_ratelimited("%lu pages are still in use, not freeing CMA region!\n",
+ leaked);
+ return true;
+ }
__cma_release_frozen(cma, cmr, pages, count);
--
2.43.0
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