kernel/linux.git/mm/huge_memory.c, branch v7.0-rc7

mm/huge_memory: fix use of NULL folio in move_pages_huge_pmd()

2026-03-10T23:01:49+00:00

move_pages_huge_pmd() handles UFFDIO_MOVE for both normal THPs and huge zero pages. For the huge zero page path, src_folio is explicitly set to NULL, and is used as a sentinel to skip folio operations like lock and rmap. In the huge zero page branch, src_folio is NULL, so folio_mk_pmd(NULL, pgprot) passes NULL through folio_pfn() and page_to_pfn(). With SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP this silently produces a bogus PFN, installing a PMD pointing to non-existent physical memory. On other memory models it is a NULL dereference. Use page_folio(src_page) to obtain the valid huge zero folio from the page, which was obtained from pmd_page() and remains valid throughout. After commit d82d09e48219 ("mm/huge_memory: mark PMD mappings of the huge zero folio special"), moved huge zero PMDs must remain special so vm_normal_page_pmd() continues to treat them as special mappings. move_pages_huge_pmd() currently reconstructs the destination PMD in the huge zero page branch, which drops PMD state such as pmd_special() on architectures with CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL. As a result, vm_normal_page_pmd() can treat the moved huge zero PMD as a normal page and corrupt its refcount. Instead of reconstructing the PMD from the folio, derive the destination entry from src_pmdval after pmdp_huge_clear_flush(), then handle the PMD metadata the same way move_huge_pmd() does for moved entries by marking it soft-dirty and clearing uffd-wp. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a1e787dd-b911-474d-8570-f37685357d86@lucifer.local Fixes: e3981db444a0 ("mm: add folio_mk_pmd()") Signed-off-by: Chris Down Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Tested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/huge_memory: fix a folio_split() race condition with folio_try_get()

2026-03-04T17:44:24+00:00

During a pagecache folio split, the values in the related xarray should not be changed from the original folio at xarray split time until all after-split folios are well formed and stored in the xarray. Current use of xas_try_split() in __split_unmapped_folio() lets some after-split folios show up at wrong indices in the xarray. When these misplaced after-split folios are unfrozen, before correct folios are stored via __xa_store(), and grabbed by folio_try_get(), they are returned to userspace at wrong file indices, causing data corruption. More detailed explanation is at the bottom. The reproducer is at: https://github.com/dfinity/thp-madv-remove-test It 1. creates a memfd, 2. forks, 3. in the child process, maps the file with large folios (via shmem code path) and reads the mapped file continuously with 16 threads, 4. in the parent process, uses madvise(MADV_REMOVE) to punch poles in the large folio. Data corruption can be observed without the fix. Basically, data from a wrong page->index is returned. Fix it by using the original folio in xas_try_split() calls, so that folio_try_get() can get the right after-split folios after the original folio is unfrozen. Uniform split, split_huge_page*(), is not affected, since it uses xas_split_alloc() and xas_split() only once and stores the original folio in the xarray. Change xas_split() used in uniform split branch to use the original folio to avoid confusion. Fixes below points to the commit introduces the code, but folio_split() is used in a later commit 7460b470a131f ("mm/truncate: use folio_split() in truncate operation"). More details: For example, a folio f is split non-uniformly into f, f2, f3, f4 like below: +----------------+---------+----+----+ | f | f2 | f3 | f4 | +----------------+---------+----+----+ but the xarray would look like below after __split_unmapped_folio() is done: +----------------+---------+----+----+ | f | f2 | f3 | f3 | +----------------+---------+----+----+ After __split_unmapped_folio(), the code changes the xarray and unfreezes after-split folios: 1. unfreezes f2, __xa_store(f2) 2. unfreezes f3, __xa_store(f3) 3. unfreezes f4, __xa_store(f4), which overwrites the second f3 to f4. 4. unfreezes f. Meanwhile, a parallel filemap_get_entry() can read the second f3 from the xarray and use folio_try_get() on it at step 2 when f3 is unfrozen. Then, f3 is wrongly returned to user. After the fix, the xarray looks like below after __split_unmapped_folio(): +----------------+---------+----+----+ | f | f | f | f | +----------------+---------+----+----+ so that the race window no longer exists. [ziy@nvidia.com: move comment, per David] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5C9FA053-A4C6-4615-BE05-74E47A6462B3@nvidia.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260302203159.3208341-1-ziy@nvidia.com Fixes: 00527733d0dc ("mm/huge_memory: add two new (not yet used) functions for folio_split()") Signed-off-by: Zi Yan Reported-by: Bas van Dijk Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAKNNEtw5_kZomhkugedKMPOG-sxs5Q5OLumWJdiWXv+C9Yct0w@mail.gmail.com/ Tested-by: Lance Yang Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Wei Yang Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang Cc: Barry Song Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Nico Pache Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: thp: deny THP for files on anonymous inodes

2026-02-24T19:13:26+00:00

file_thp_enabled() incorrectly allows THP for files on anonymous inodes (e.g. guest_memfd and secretmem). These files are created via alloc_file_pseudo(), which does not call get_write_access() and leaves inode->i_writecount at 0. Combined with S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) being true, they appear as read-only regular files when CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS is enabled, making them eligible for THP collapse. Anonymous inodes can never pass the inode_is_open_for_write() check since their i_writecount is never incremented through the normal VFS open path. The right thing to do is to exclude them from THP eligibility altogether, since CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS was designed for real filesystem files (e.g. shared libraries), not for pseudo-filesystem inodes. For guest_memfd, this allows khugepaged and MADV_COLLAPSE to create large folios in the page cache via the collapse path, but the guest_memfd fault handler does not support large folios. This triggers WARN_ON_ONCE(folio_test_large(folio)) in kvm_gmem_fault_user_mapping(). For secretmem, collapse_file() tries to copy page contents through the direct map, but secretmem pages are removed from the direct map. This can result in a kernel crash: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff88810284d000 RIP: 0010:memcpy_orig+0x16/0x130 Call Trace: collapse_file hpage_collapse_scan_file madvise_collapse Secretmem is not affected by the crash on upstream as the memory failure recovery handles the failed copy gracefully, but it still triggers confusing false memory failure reports: Memory failure: 0x106d96f: recovery action for clean unevictable LRU page: Recovered Check IS_ANON_FILE(inode) in file_thp_enabled() to deny THP for all anonymous inode files. Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=33a04338019ac7e43a44 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAEvNRgHegcz3ro35ixkDw39ES8=U6rs6S7iP0gkR9enr7HoGtA@mail.gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260214001535.435626-1-kartikey406@gmail.com Fixes: 7fbb5e188248 ("mm: remove VM_EXEC requirement for THP eligibility") Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey Reported-by: syzbot+33a04338019ac7e43a44@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=33a04338019ac7e43a44 Tested-by: syzbot+33a04338019ac7e43a44@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Tested-by: Lance Yang Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Reviewed-by: Barry Song Reviewed-by: Ackerley Tng Tested-by: Ackerley Tng Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Fangrui Song Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Nico Pache Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Zi Yan Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-02-12T19:32:37+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "powerpc/64s: do not re-activate batched TLB flush" makes arch_{enter|leave}_lazy_mmu_mode() nest properly (Alexander Gordeev) It adds a generic enter/leave layer and switches architectures to use it. Various hacks were removed in the process. - "zram: introduce compressed data writeback" implements data compression for zram writeback (Richard Chang and Sergey Senozhatsky) - "mm: folio_zero_user: clear page ranges" adds clearing of contiguous page ranges for hugepages. Large improvements during demand faulting are demonstrated (David Hildenbrand) - "memcg cleanups" tidies up some memcg code (Chen Ridong) - "mm/damon: introduce {,max_}nr_snapshots and tracepoint for damos stats" improves DAMOS stat's provided information, deterministic control, and readability (SeongJae Park) - "selftests/mm: hugetlb cgroup charging: robustness fixes" fixes a few issues in the hugetlb cgroup charging selftests (Li Wang) - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure - again" addresses several issues in the va_high_addr_switch test (Chunyu Hu) - "mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: extend existing test scenarios" improves the KUnit test coverage for DAMON (Shu Anzai) - "mm/khugepaged: fix dirty page handling for MADV_COLLAPSE" fixes a glitch in khugepaged which was causing madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to transiently return -EAGAIN (Shivank Garg) - "arch, mm: consolidate hugetlb early reservation" reworks and consolidates a pile of straggly code related to reservation of hugetlb memory from bootmem and creation of CMA areas for hugetlb (Mike Rapoport) - "mm: clean up anon_vma implementation" cleans up the anon_vma implementation in various ways (Lorenzo Stoakes) - "tweaks for __alloc_pages_slowpath()" does a little streamlining of the page allocator's slowpath code (Vlastimil Babka) - "memcg: separate private and public ID namespaces" cleans up the memcg ID code and prevents the internal-only private IDs from being exposed to userspace (Shakeel Butt) - "mm: hugetlb: allocate frozen gigantic folio" cleans up the allocation of frozen folios and avoids some atomic refcount operations (Kefeng Wang) - "mm/damon: advance DAMOS-based LRU sorting" improves DAMOS's movement of memory betewwn the active and inactive LRUs and adds auto-tuning of the ratio-based quotas and of monitoring intervals (SeongJae Park) - "Support page table check on PowerPC" makes CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK_ENFORCED work on powerpc (Andrew Donnellan) - "nodemask: align nodes_and{,not} with underlying bitmap ops" makes nodes_and() and nodes_andnot() propagate the return values from the underlying bit operations, enabling some cleanup in calling code (Yury Norov) - "mm/damon: hide kdamond and kdamond_lock from API callers" cleans up some DAMON internal interfaces (SeongJae Park) - "mm/khugepaged: cleanups and scan limit fix" does some cleanup work in khupaged and fixes a scan limit accounting issue (Shivank Garg) - "mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups" goes to town on the balloon infrastructure and its page migration function. Mainly cleanups, also some locking simplification (David Hildenbrand) - "mm/vmscan: add tracepoint and reason for kswapd_failures reset" adds additional tracepoints to the page reclaim code (Jiayuan Chen) - "Replace wq users and add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue() users" is part of Marco's kernel-wide migration from the legacy workqueue APIs over to the preferred unbound workqueues (Marco Crivellari) - "Various mm kselftests improvements/fixes" provides various unrelated improvements/fixes for the mm kselftests (Kevin Brodsky) - "mm: accelerate gigantic folio allocation" greatly speeds up gigantic folio allocation, mainly by avoiding unnecessary work in pfn_range_valid_contig() (Kefeng Wang) - "selftests/damon: improve leak detection and wss estimation reliability" improves the reliability of two of the DAMON selftests (SeongJae Park) - "mm/damon: cleanup kdamond, damon_call(), damos filter and DAMON_MIN_REGION" does some cleanup work in the core DAMON code (SeongJae Park) - "Docs/mm/damon: update intro, modules, maintainer profile, and misc" performs maintenance work on the DAMON documentation (SeongJae Park) - "mm: add and use vma_assert_stabilised() helper" refactors and cleans up the core VMA code. The main aim here is to be able to use the mmap write lock's lockdep state to perform various assertions regarding the locking which the VMA code requires (Lorenzo Stoakes) - "mm, swap: swap table phase II: unify swapin use" removes some old swap code (swap cache bypassing and swap synchronization) which wasn't working very well. Various other cleanups and simplifications were made. The end result is a 20% speedup in one benchmark (Kairui Song) - "enable PT_RECLAIM on more 64-bit architectures" makes PT_RECLAIM available on 64-bit alpha, loongarch, mips, parisc, and um. Various cleanups were performed along the way (Qi Zheng) * tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (325 commits) mm/memory: handle non-split locks correctly in zap_empty_pte_table() mm: move pte table reclaim code to memory.c mm: make PT_RECLAIM depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mm: convert __HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE to CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE config um: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE parisc: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mips: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE LoongArch: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE alpha: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mm: change mm/pt_reclaim.c to use asm/tlb.h instead of asm-generic/tlb.h mm/damon/stat: remove __read_mostly from memory_idle_ms_percentiles zsmalloc: make common caches global mm: add SPDX id lines to some mm source files mm/zswap: use %pe to print error pointers mm/vmscan: use %pe to print error pointers mm/readahead: fix typo in comment mm: khugepaged: fix NR_FILE_PAGES and NR_SHMEM in collapse_file() mm: refactor vma_map_pages to use vm_insert_pages mm/damon: unify address range representation with damon_addr_range mm/cma: replace snprintf with strscpy in cma_new_area ...

migrate: replace RMP_ flags with TTU_ flags

2026-01-27T04:02:33+00:00

Instead of translating between RMP_ and TTU_ flags, remove the RMP_ flags and just use the TTU_ flag space; there's plenty available. Possibly we should rename these to RMAP_ flags, and maybe even pass them in through rmap_walk_arg, but that can be done later. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260109041345.3863089-3-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Zi Yan Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Byungchul Park Cc: Gregory Price Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Joshua Hahn Cc: Lance Yang Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Matthew Brost Cc: Rakie Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Ying Huang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

simplify the callers of file_open_name()

2026-01-13T20:18:08+00:00

It accepts ERR_PTR() for name and does the right thing in that case. That allows to simplify the logics in callers, making them trivial to switch to CLASS(filename). Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-11-11-39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-12-13T08:35:41+00:00

Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "powerpc/pseries/cmm: two smaller fixes" (David Hildenbrand) fixes a couple of minor things in ppc land - "Improve folio split related functions" (Zi Yan) some cleanups and minorish fixes in the folio splitting code * tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-11-11-39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: avoid damos_test_commit stack warning mm: vmscan: correct nr_requested tracing in scan_folios MAINTAINERS: add idr core-api doc file to XARRAY mm/hugetlb: fix incorrect error return from hugetlb_reserve_pages() mm: fix CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP typo in mm.h mm/huge_memory: fix folio split stats counting mm/huge_memory: make min_order_for_split() always return an order mm/huge_memory: replace can_split_folio() with direct refcount calculation mm/huge_memory: change folio_split_supported() to folio_check_splittable() mm/sparse: fix sparse_vmemmap_init_nid_early definition without CONFIG_SPARSEMEM powerpc/pseries/cmm: adjust BALLOON_MIGRATE when migrating pages powerpc/pseries/cmm: call balloon_devinfo_init() also without CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION

mm/huge_memory: fix folio split stats counting

2025-12-09T19:25:33+00:00

The "return " statements for error checks at the beginning of __folio_split() skip necessary count_vm_event() and count_mthp_stat() at the end of the function. Fix these by replacing them with "ret = ; goto out;". Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251126210618.1971206-5-ziy@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Zi Yan Reviewed-by: Wei Yang Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Barry Song Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Lance Yang Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Nico Pache Cc: Ryan Roberts Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton