kernel/linux.git/mm/huge_memory.c, branch v6.12.103

mm/huge_memory: unlock i_mmap_rwsem before releasing after-split folios

2026-08-09T18:23:23+00:00

[ Upstream commit e923bd21058ea02fd0dcd3549d151d143fd036e5 ] __folio_split() keeps dereferencing the mapping after the split: shmem_uncharge(mapping->host) and remap_page() while the folios are still frozen/locked, and i_mmap_unlock_read(mapping) at the very end, after the after-split folios have been unlocked and freed. Nothing holds an inode reference across that. The split relies on @folio -- which the beyond-EOF drop loop never removes, as it starts at folio_next(folio) -- staying locked and in the page cache to hold off eviction. But the unlock loop unlocks @folio before i_mmap_unlock_read() runs. If the caller's @lock_at is a tail beyond EOF, as memory_failure() passes when splitting a poisoned tail of a shmem THP that reaches past i_size during truncation, it too is gone from the page cache; so once @folio is unlocked no locked, in-cache folio pins the inode, and a concurrent final iput() can evict and RCU-free it before i_mmap_unlock_read() touches i_mmap_rwsem: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __up_read+0x634/0x790 i_mmap_unlock_read include/linux/fs.h:537 [inline] __folio_split+0x732/0x1640 mm/huge_memory.c:4100 try_to_split_thp_page+0xab/0x390 mm/memory-failure.c:1675 memory_failure+0x1394/0x26e0 mm/memory-failure.c:2470 Freed by task 4601: shmem_free_in_core_inode+0x54/0xb0 mm/shmem.c:5177 evict+0x57f/0xac0 fs/inode.c:870 Do every mapping dereference while @folio still pins the inode: drop i_mmap_rwsem right after remap_page(), before the loop that unlocks and frees the after-split folios, and clear @mapping so the exit path does not unlock it again. shmem_uncharge() and remap_page() already run before that point, so after this nothing past the unlock loop touches the inode or the mapping. This is now a rule the split depends on, alongside keeping @folio frozen until the page cache is updated: no inode or mapping dereference once the after-split folios start being unlocked. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260716095424.471052-1-kirill@shutemov.name Fixes: baa355fd3314 ("thp: file pages support for split_huge_page()") Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) Reported-by: Hao Zhang Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260710071344.GA106129@zh-pc Co-developed-by: Hao Zhang Signed-off-by: Hao Zhang Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Reviewed-by: Zi Yan Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Barry Song Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Lance Yang Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Nico Pache Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton (cherry picked from commit e923bd21058ea02fd0dcd3549d151d143fd036e5) [ kas: adapt to the __split_huge_page()/split_huge_page_to_list_to_order() two-function split: pass @mapping into __split_huge_page() and drop it there, before the loop that frees the after-split subpages while the head is still locked; the caller then skips its own i_mmap unlock ] Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mm/huge_memory: update file PMD counter before folio_put()

2026-06-19T11:42:29+00:00

commit 8d878059924f12c1bc24556a92ec56add74de3c8 upstream. __split_huge_pmd_locked() updates the file/shmem RSS counter after dropping the PMD mapping's folio reference. If folio_put() drops the last reference, mm_counter_file() can later read freed folio state via folio_test_swapbacked(). Move the counter update before folio_put(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260526101337.1984081-1-yintirui@huawei.com Fixes: fadae2953072 ("thp: use mm_file_counter to determine update which rss counter") Signed-off-by: Yin Tirui Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (arm) Reviewed-by: Lance Yang Reviewed-by: Dev Jain Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Barry Song Cc: Chen Jun Cc: Kefeng Wang Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Nico Pache Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Zi Yan Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/huge_memory: fix NULL pointer deference when splitting folio

2025-12-06T21:25:02+00:00

[ Upstream commit cff47b9e39a6abf03dde5f4f156f841b0c54bba0 ] Commit c010d47f107f ("mm: thp: split huge page to any lower order pages") introduced an early check on the folio's order via mapping->flags before proceeding with the split work. This check introduced a bug: for shmem folios in the swap cache and truncated folios, the mapping pointer can be NULL. Accessing mapping->flags in this state leads directly to a NULL pointer dereference. This commit fixes the issue by moving the check for mapping != NULL before any attempt to access mapping->flags. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251119235302.24773-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com Fixes: c010d47f107f ("mm: thp: split huge page to any lower order pages") Signed-off-by: Wei Yang Reviewed-by: Zi Yan Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [ applied fix to split_huge_page_to_list_to_order() instead of __folio_split() ] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/huge_memory: preserve PG_has_hwpoisoned if a folio is split to >0 order

2025-11-24T09:36:07+00:00

commit fa5a061700364bc28ee1cb1095372f8033645dcb upstream. folio split clears PG_has_hwpoisoned, but the flag should be preserved in after-split folios containing pages with PG_hwpoisoned flag if the folio is split to >0 order folios. Scan all pages in a to-be-split folio to determine which after-split folios need the flag. An alternatives is to change PG_has_hwpoisoned to PG_maybe_hwpoisoned to avoid the scan and set it on all after-split folios, but resulting false positive has undesirable negative impact. To remove false positive, caller of folio_test_has_hwpoisoned() and folio_contain_hwpoisoned_page() needs to do the scan. That might be causing a hassle for current and future callers and more costly than doing the scan in the split code. More details are discussed in [1]. This issue can be exposed via: 1. splitting a has_hwpoisoned folio to >0 order from debugfs interface; 2. truncating part of a has_hwpoisoned folio in truncate_inode_partial_folio(). And later accesses to a hwpoisoned page could be possible due to the missing has_hwpoisoned folio flag. This will lead to MCE errors. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHbLzkoOZm0PXxE9qwtF4gKR=cpRXrSrJ9V9Pm2DJexs985q4g@mail.gmail.com/ [1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251023030521.473097-1-ziy@nvidia.com Fixes: c010d47f107f ("mm: thp: split huge page to any lower order pages") Signed-off-by: Zi Yan Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Yang Shi Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Lance Yang Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang Reviewed-by: Wei Yang Cc: Pankaj Raghav Cc: Barry Song Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Jane Chu Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Luis Chamberalin Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Nico Pache Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/huge_memory: do not change split_huge_page*() target order silently

2025-11-24T09:36:07+00:00

commit 77008e1b2ef73249bceb078a321a3ff6bc087afb upstream. Page cache folios from a file system that support large block size (LBS) can have minimal folio order greater than 0, thus a high order folio might not be able to be split down to order-0. Commit e220917fa507 ("mm: split a folio in minimum folio order chunks") bumps the target order of split_huge_page*() to the minimum allowed order when splitting a LBS folio. This causes confusion for some split_huge_page*() callers like memory failure handling code, since they expect after-split folios all have order-0 when split succeeds but in reality get min_order_for_split() order folios and give warnings. Fix it by failing a split if the folio cannot be split to the target order. Rename try_folio_split() to try_folio_split_to_order() to reflect the added new_order parameter. Remove its unused list parameter. [The test poisons LBS folios, which cannot be split to order-0 folios, and also tries to poison all memory. The non split LBS folios take more memory than the test anticipated, leading to OOM. The patch fixed the kernel warning and the test needs some change to avoid OOM.] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251017013630.139907-1-ziy@nvidia.com Fixes: e220917fa507 ("mm: split a folio in minimum folio order chunks") Signed-off-by: Zi Yan Reported-by: syzbot+e6367ea2fdab6ed46056@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68d2c943.a70a0220.1b52b.02b3.GAE@google.com/ Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain Reviewed-by: Pankaj Raghav Reviewed-by: Wei Yang Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Barry Song Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Jane Chu Cc: Lance Yang Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Mariano Pache Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: prevent poison consumption when splitting THP

2025-10-29T13:08:57+00:00

commit 841a8bfcbad94bb1ba60f59ce34f75259074ae0d upstream. When performing memory error injection on a THP (Transparent Huge Page) mapped to userspace on an x86 server, the kernel panics with the following trace. The expected behavior is to terminate the affected process instead of panicking the kernel, as the x86 Machine Check code can recover from an in-userspace #MC. mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: f Bank 3: bd80000000070134 mce: [Hardware Error]: RIP 10: {memchr_inv+0x4c/0xf0} mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC afff7bbff88a ADDR 1d301b000 MISC 80 PPIN 1e741e77539027db mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 0:d06d0 TIME 1758093249 SOCKET 0 APIC 0 microcode 80000320 mce: [Hardware Error]: Run the above through 'mcelog --ascii' mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check: Data load in unrecoverable area of kernel Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal local machine check The root cause of this panic is that handling a memory failure triggered by an in-userspace #MC necessitates splitting the THP. The splitting process employs a mechanism, implemented in try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(), which reads the pages in the THP to identify zero-filled pages. However, reading the pages in the THP results in a second in-kernel #MC, occurring before the initial memory_failure() completes, ultimately leading to a kernel panic. See the kernel panic call trace on the two #MCs. First Machine Check occurs // [1] memory_failure() // [2] try_to_split_thp_page() split_huge_page() split_huge_page_to_list_to_order() __folio_split() // [3] remap_page() remove_migration_ptes() remove_migration_pte() try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage() // [4] memchr_inv() // [5] Second Machine Check occurs // [6] Kernel panic [1] Triggered by accessing a hardware-poisoned THP in userspace, which is typically recoverable by terminating the affected process. [2] Call folio_set_has_hwpoisoned() before try_to_split_thp_page(). [3] Pass the RMP_USE_SHARED_ZEROPAGE remap flag to remap_page(). [4] Try to map the unused THP to zeropage. [5] Re-access pages in the hw-poisoned THP in the kernel. [6] Triggered in-kernel, leading to a panic kernel. In Step[2], memory_failure() sets the poisoned flag on the page in the THP by TestSetPageHWPoison() before calling try_to_split_thp_page(). As suggested by David Hildenbrand, fix this panic by not accessing to the poisoned page in the THP during zeropage identification, while continuing to scan unaffected pages in the THP for possible zeropage mapping. This prevents a second in-kernel #MC that would cause kernel panic in Step[4]. Thanks to Andrew Zaborowski for his initial work on fixing this issue. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251015064926.1887643-1-qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251011075520.320862-1-qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com Fixes: b1f202060afe ("mm: remap unused subpages to shared zeropage when splitting isolated thp") Signed-off-by: Qiuxu Zhuo Reported-by: Farrah Chen Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Tested-by: Farrah Chen Tested-by: Qiuxu Zhuo Acked-by: Lance Yang Reviewed-by: Wei Yang Acked-by: Zi Yan Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin Cc: Barry Song Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Jiaqi Yan Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Mariano Pache Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/thp: fix MTE tag mismatch when replacing zero-filled subpages

2025-10-19T14:33:58+00:00

commit 1ce6473d17e78e3cb9a40147658231731a551828 upstream. When both THP and MTE are enabled, splitting a THP and replacing its zero-filled subpages with the shared zeropage can cause MTE tag mismatch faults in userspace. Remapping zero-filled subpages to the shared zeropage is unsafe, as the zeropage has a fixed tag of zero, which may not match the tag expected by the userspace pointer. KSM already avoids this problem by using memcmp_pages(), which on arm64 intentionally reports MTE-tagged pages as non-identical to prevent unsafe merging. As suggested by David[1], this patch adopts the same pattern, replacing the memchr_inv() byte-level check with a call to pages_identical(). This leverages existing architecture-specific logic to determine if a page is truly identical to the shared zeropage. Having both the THP shrinker and KSM rely on pages_identical() makes the design more future-proof, IMO. Instead of handling quirks in generic code, we just let the architecture decide what makes two pages identical. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ca2106a3-4bb2-4457-81af-301fd99fbef4@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250922021458.68123-1-lance.yang@linux.dev Fixes: b1f202060afe ("mm: remap unused subpages to shared zeropage when splitting isolated thp") Signed-off-by: Lance Yang Reported-by: Qun-wei Lin Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/a7944523fcc3634607691c35311a5d59d1a3f8d4.camel@mediatek.com Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Zi Yan Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Usama Arif Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas Reviewed-by: Wei Yang Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: andrew.yang Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Barry Song Cc: Byungchul Park Cc: Charlie Jenkins Cc: Chinwen Chang Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo Cc: Gregory Price Cc: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Joshua Hahn Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Kalesh Singh Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Mariano Pache Cc: Mathew Brost Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Rakie Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Samuel Holland Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Yu Zhao Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/huge_memory: fix dereferencing invalid pmd migration entry

2025-05-18T06:24:51+00:00

commit be6e843fc51a584672dfd9c4a6a24c8cb81d5fb7 upstream. When migrating a THP, concurrent access to the PMD migration entry during a deferred split scan can lead to an invalid address access, as illustrated below. To prevent this invalid access, it is necessary to check the PMD migration entry and return early. In this context, there is no need to use pmd_to_swp_entry and pfn_swap_entry_to_page to verify the equality of the target folio. Since the PMD migration entry is locked, it cannot be served as the target. Mailing list discussion and explanation from Hugh Dickins: "An anon_vma lookup points to a location which may contain the folio of interest, but might instead contain another folio: and weeding out those other folios is precisely what the "folio != pmd_folio((*pmd)" check (and the "risk of replacing the wrong folio" comment a few lines above it) is for." BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffea60001db008 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 2199114 Comm: tee Not tainted 6.14.0+ #4 NONE Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:split_huge_pmd_locked+0x3b5/0x2b60 Call Trace: try_to_migrate_one+0x28c/0x3730 rmap_walk_anon+0x4f6/0x770 unmap_folio+0x196/0x1f0 split_huge_page_to_list_to_order+0x9f6/0x1560 deferred_split_scan+0xac5/0x12a0 shrinker_debugfs_scan_write+0x376/0x470 full_proxy_write+0x15c/0x220 vfs_write+0x2fc/0xcb0 ksys_write+0x146/0x250 do_syscall_64+0x6a/0x120 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e The bug is found by syzkaller on an internal kernel, then confirmed on upstream. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250421113536.3682201-1-gavinguo@igalia.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250414072737.1698513-1-gavinguo@igalia.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250418085802.2973519-1-gavinguo@igalia.com/ Fixes: 84c3fc4e9c56 ("mm: thp: check pmd migration entry in common path") Signed-off-by: Gavin Guo Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Zi Yan Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan Cc: Florent Revest Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/huge_memory: drop beyond-EOF folios with the right number of refs

2025-03-28T21:03:33+00:00

commit 14efb4793519d73fb2902bb0ece319b886e4b4b9 upstream. When an after-split folio is large and needs to be dropped due to EOF, folio_put_refs(folio, folio_nr_pages(folio)) should be used to drop all page cache refs. Otherwise, the folio will not be freed, causing memory leak. This leak would happen on a filesystem with blocksize > page_size and a truncate is performed, where the blocksize makes folios split to >0 order ones, causing truncated folios not being freed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250310155727.472846-1-ziy@nvidia.com Fixes: c010d47f107f ("mm: thp: split huge page to any lower order pages") Signed-off-by: Zi Yan Reported-by: Hugh Dickins Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/fcbadb7f-dd3e-21df-f9a7-2853b53183c4@google.com/ Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: John Hubbard Cc: Kefeng Wang Cc: Kirill A. Shuemov Cc: Luis Chamberalin Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Pankaj Raghav Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Yu Zhao Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: clear uffd-wp PTE/PMD state on mremap()

2025-01-23T16:23:02+00:00

commit 0cef0bb836e3cfe00f08f9606c72abd72fe78ca3 upstream. When mremap()ing a memory region previously registered with userfaultfd as write-protected but without UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_REMAP, an inconsistency in flag clearing leads to a mismatch between the vma flags (which have uffd-wp cleared) and the pte/pmd flags (which do not have uffd-wp cleared). This mismatch causes a subsequent mprotect(PROT_WRITE) to trigger a warning in page_table_check_pte_flags() due to setting the pte to writable while uffd-wp is still set. Fix this by always explicitly clearing the uffd-wp pte/pmd flags on any such mremap() so that the values are consistent with the existing clearing of VM_UFFD_WP. Be careful to clear the logical flag regardless of its physical form; a PTE bit, a swap PTE bit, or a PTE marker. Cover PTE, huge PMD and hugetlb paths. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250107144755.1871363-2-ryan.roberts@arm.com Co-developed-by: Mikołaj Lenczewski Signed-off-by: Mikołaj Lenczewski Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/810b44a8-d2ae-4107-b665-5a42eae2d948@arm.com/ Fixes: 63b2d4174c4a ("userfaultfd: wp: add the writeprotect API to userfaultfd ioctl") Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman