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When map_chg is set,\nhugetlb_cgroup_charge_cgroup_rsvd() stores the charged cgroup in h_cg, but\nthe immediately following hugetlb_cgroup_charge_cgroup() overwrites h_cg\nwith the non-rsvd cgroup pointer.\n\nAs a result, hugetlb_cgroup_commit_charge_rsvd() stores the wrong\n(non-rsvd) cgroup pointer into the folio's rsvd slot.\n\nWhen the folio is later freed, free_huge_folio() unconditionally calls\nboth hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_folio() and\nhugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_folio_rsvd(). The rsvd uncharge reads back the\nwrong cgroup from the folio and decrements a counter that was never\ncharged for that cgroup, causing a page_counter underflow:\n\n page_counter underflow: -512 nr_pages=512\n WARNING: mm/page_counter.c:61 at page_counter_cancel\n\nFix this by introducing a separate h_cg_rsvd pointer exclusively for the\nrsvd charge path, keeping the rsvd and non-rsvd charges fully independent\nthrough their charge, commit, and error uncharge paths."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.1, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The bug is in alloc_hugetlb_folio()/free_huge_folio() and is reached only via local MM paths (mmap/munmap, hugetlb page faults, fallocate, memfd MFD_HUGETLB, MAP_HUGETLB) that syzbot triggered through hugetlbfs inode eviction, not via any network-facing kernel service.\nAC:L - An unprivileged attacker can reliably trigger the mismatch by creating hugetlbfs mappings without reservations (MAP_NORESERVE or fault-before-reserve), faulting in huge pages to run alloc_hugetlb_folio() with map_chg set, then closing/unmapping to free folios and hit the bad rsvd uncharge.\nPR:L - Triggering requires only an unprivileged local process that can use hugetlb memory (hugetlbfs/MAP_HUGETLB/memfd) under a hugetlb cgroup; 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