4.3-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horigu...@ah.jp.nec.com>

commit a88c769548047b21f76fd71e04b6a3300ff17160 upstream.

When dequeue_huge_page_vma() in alloc_huge_page() fails, we fall back on
alloc_buddy_huge_page() to directly create a hugepage from the buddy
allocator.

In that case, however, if alloc_buddy_huge_page() succeeds we don't
decrement h->resv_huge_pages, which means that successful
hugetlb_fault() returns without releasing the reserve count.  As a
result, subsequent hugetlb_fault() might fail despite that there are
still free hugepages.

This patch simply adds decrementing code on that code path.

I reproduced this problem when testing v4.3 kernel in the following situation:
 - the test machine/VM is a NUMA system,
 - hugepage overcommiting is enabled,
 - most of hugepages are allocated and there's only one free hugepage
   which is on node 0 (for example),
 - another program, which calls set_mempolicy(MPOL_BIND) to bind itself to
   node 1, tries to allocate a hugepage,
 - the allocation should fail but the reserve count is still hold.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horigu...@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo....@lge.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf...@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.krav...@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

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

--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1790,7 +1790,10 @@ struct page *alloc_huge_page(struct vm_a
                page = alloc_buddy_huge_page(h, NUMA_NO_NODE);
                if (!page)
                        goto out_uncharge_cgroup;
-
+               if (!avoid_reserve && vma_has_reserves(vma, gbl_chg)) {
+                       SetPagePrivate(page);
+                       h->resv_huge_pages--;
+               }
                spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
                list_move(&page->lru, &h->hugepage_activelist);
                /* Fall through */


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