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<title>mm/huge_memory: fix huge_zero_pfn race</title>
<updated>2026-08-27T12:28:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)</name>
<email>ljs@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2026-08-20T14:55:12+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 33192a26cddea7a7e4ca66e5c3eebd36fa8be2bb ]

Patch series "mm/huge_memory: fix huge_zero_pfn race", v2.

There is a subtle race in the reference-counted huge_zero_folio
implementation.

The fast path atomic logic fails to account for the fact that the shrinker
(which drops the final huge_zero_refcount pin) can overwrite huge_zero_pfn
with the ~0UL sentinel value in shrink_huge_zero_folio_scan() after a
racing get_huge_zero_folio() installed a valid value there.

This results in huge_zero_folio being correctly set but huge_zero_pfn
being set incorrectly and thus is_huge_zero_pfn() and consequently
is_huge_zero_pmd() will misidentify the huge zero folio as being an
ordinary THP folio.

This can result in the huge zero folio being split and otherwise treated
incorrectly.

The solution to this is very subtle as there is an atomic fast path, and
thus ordering in weakly ordered architectures has to be treated very
carefully.

The first commit fixes the issue by introducing a spinlock around
huge_zero_[pfn, folio, refcount] write, with careful consideration paid to
load/store ordering in the fast path.  It is placed first and kept as
small as possible so that it can be backported on its own.

The second commit is a pure cleanup which reworks the
CONFIG_PERSISTENT_HUGE_ZERO_FOLIO logic to better separate the persistent
logic from the dynamically allocated one.

This patch (of 2):

If !CONFIG_PERSISTENT_HUGE_ZERO_FOLIO, the huge_zero_folio is refcounted
by huge_zero_refcount and returned by mm_get_huge_zero_folio().

When the caller is done with the huge zero page, its reference count is
decremented.  Only a shrinker can set the reference count to zero.

A race can unfortunately occur between a shrinker decrementing the
reference count to zero and a concurrent page fault.

This is because shrink_huge_zero_folio_scan() might, if very unlucky, be
preempted between setting huge_zero_refcount to zero and writing an
invalid value.

During this time get_huge_zero_folio() could write to huge_zero_pfn before
shrink_huge_zero_folio_scan() resumes.

In this event the huge zero folio will be persistently misidentified
causing the THP code path to be entered inappropriately for the huge zero
folio:

                CPU 0                                   CPU 1
=======================================|=================================
shrink_huge_zero_folio_scan()          |
   atomic_cmpxchg() sets refcount to 0 |
   xchg() sets huge_zero_folio to NULL | get_huge_zero_folio()
                 |                     |    atomic_inc_not_zero() -&gt; zero
      preempted for a long time        |    Allocate new huge zero folio
                 |                     |    Write valid huge_zero_folio
                 v                     |    Write valid huge_zero_pfn
  Overwrite huge_zero_pfn with ~0UL   &lt;--- Invalid overwrite!

This results in is_huge_zero_pfn() and is_huge_zero_pmd() incorrectly
returning false for a huge zero page which could result in issues like the
huge zero folio being incorrectly split.

Note that the issue is with huge_zero_pfn not huge_zero_folio, as
get_huge_zero_folio() uses cmpxchg() gated on huge_zero_folio being NULL
with a retry loop and shrink_huge_zero_folio_scan() uses xchg() to set
huge_zero_folio.

Fix the issue by introducing a spinlock, huge_zero_lock, to prevent
concurrent write of huge_zero_folio, huge_zero_pfn and huge_zero_refcount.

There needs to be significant care taken here to ensure correctness:

The fast path in get_huge_zero_folio() uses atomic_inc_not_zero(), which
is outside of the critical section, and means huge zero allocation is
gated on zero huge_zero_refcount.

The fast path doesn't use huge_zero_lock, so the critical section is
irrelevant to it.

So invariants are required - huge_zero_refcount MUST:

* Only be set in the huge_zero_lock critical section to ensure
  serialisation of huge_zero_pfn, huge_zero_folio and huge_zero_refcount
  writes.

* Be set non-zero only AFTER huge_zero_[pfn, folio] are set to valid values
  so installation of the huge zero folio on read page fault ensures
  concurrent is_huge_zero_*() calls correctly identify the huge zero folio.

* Be set zero only BEFORE huge_zero_[pfn, folio] are set to NULL and ~0UL
  respectively, and atomically.

Establish these by:

* Only setting huge_zero_refcount to zero or an absolute value in the
  huge_zero_lock critical section in get_huge_zero_folio() and
  shrink_huge_zero_folio_scan(), and always updating atomically there
  and elsewhere.

* Using atomic_set_release(&amp;huge_zero_refcount) in get_huge_zero_folio()
  after huge_zero_[pfn, folio] are set. This is paired with
  atomic_inc_not_zero() to ensure atomic_inc_not_zero() only observes a
  non-zero value if huge_zero_[pfn, folio] are set.

* Using atomic_cmpxchg() in shrink_huge_zero_folio_scan() (as before) to
  ensure that it is set zero only when equal to 1 and set atomically.

* atomic_cmpxchg() being fully ordered ensures this is done prior to
  huge_zero_[folio, pfn] being set to NULL and ~0UL respectively.

Eliminate the retry loop in get_huge_zero_folio() as the atomic_cmpxchg()
in shrink_huge_zero_folio_scan() is now performed under the lock, and
replace with an equally locked atomic_inc() to set the reference count
should the caller be raced on huge zero folio installation.

folio_put() naturally implies a full memory barrier so its ordering is
maintained correctly.

The huge zero folio also cannot be released except when the shrinker does
so as it is non-LRU and non-rmappable.

Note that only the huge zero shrinker (via shrink_huge_zero_folio_scan())
can actually set huge_zero_refcount to zero, which is the count of mm's
which have at least one huge zero folio installed plus one shrinker pin.

Additionally convert a BUG_ON() to a VM_WARN_ON_ONCE().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260730-fix-refcounted-huge-zero-v2-0-c5d8a41b317f@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260730-fix-refcounted-huge-zero-v2-1-c5d8a41b317f@kernel.org
Fixes: 3b77e8c8cde5 ("mm/thp: make is_huge_zero_pmd() safe and quicker")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Hengbin Zhang &lt;uqbarz@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260727154001.4102341-1-uqbarz@gmail.com/
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kiryl Shutsemau &lt;kas@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Lance Yang &lt;lance.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Nico Pache &lt;npache@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pankaj Raghav &lt;p.raghav@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[ Expanded `scoped_guard(spinlock, &amp;huge_zero_lock)` into explicit `spin_lock()`/`spin_unlock()` pairs and converted folio APIs to page APIs. ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/ptdump: always stabilise against page table freeing using init_mm</title>
<updated>2026-08-23T12:17:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)</name>
<email>ljs@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-19T20:03:56+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 27c32e5538344b13c1505a08861e04620c125d47 ]

Previous commits have established the invariant that kernel page table
freeing is performed while an mmap read lock on init_mm is held, which
fixes races between ptdump and kernel page table freeing over init_mm.

However, x86 and arm64 can perform a ptdump over an mm other than init_mm
via ptdump_walk_pgd() and since kernel memory ranges are shared across
non-kernel mm's, this means that the race still exists for these cases.

Fix this by acquiring a nested mmap write lock for init_mm in
ptdump_walk_pgd().

This is safe as we take this after mmap write locking the mm, and nothing
acquires the init_mm lock first before locking an arbitrary mm, so no
deadlock is possible.

Also update walk_page_range_debug() to assert that init_mm is write
locked, add a comment explaining why and remove some redundant code, and
eliminate the unnecessary and confusing invocation of
walk_kernel_page_table_range().

We can safely remove the non-NULL check for walk.mm, as the mmap lock
asserts would NULL pointer deref if it was (and of course no callers do
this).

The first point at which ptdump can race kernel page table freeing is
commit b6bdb7517c3d ("mm/vmalloc: add interfaces to free unmapped page
table"), so we target this in the Fixes tag.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260723-series-vmap-race-fix-v6-4-8cc77dcc0018@kernel.org
Fixes: b6bdb7517c3d ("mm/vmalloc: add interfaces to free unmapped page table")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau &lt;kas@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Borah, Chaitanya Kumar" &lt;chaitanya.kumar.borah@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Carlier &lt;devnexen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[ Adapted the hunk to `walk_page_range_novma()` since 5.15 lacks the `walk_page_range_debug()` rename and the `walk_kernel_page_table_range()` dispatch, keeping the existing `!walk.mm` guard. ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm/vmstat: fold stranded per-cpu node stats when a node comes online</title>
<updated>2026-08-23T12:17:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gregory Price</name>
<email>gourry@gourry.net</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-11T02:15:45+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ea3034b2b00fa50c8d2518d0804c9d427bbafa86 ]

A per-node vmstat counter is pgdat-&gt;vm_stat[] plus per-cpu deltas.  A
balanced counter can sit split as global=+N / per-cpu=-N.

The folds reconciling the split only walk online nodes, so when
try_offline_node() marks a node offline the per-cpu deltas are stranded.

A subsequent online resets the per-cpu area but not pgdat-&gt;vm_stat[],
orphaning the +N permanently.  All NR_VM_NODE_STAT_ITEMS are affected.

The existing code zeroes the per-cpu counters and causes a permanent skew.
Fold the stranded deltas instead, before the node rejoins the online set.
The node is not online yet and the hotplug lock is held, so the remote
access to per-cpu values is safe.

Discovered when node compaction hung for a nearly empty node, as the math
to determine throttling broke.  Reproduced by repeated memory
hotplug/unplug cycles on a node under pressure: NR_ISOLATED_ANON ratchets
up and never returns to zero.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260627202243.758289-1-gourry@gourry.net
Fixes: 75ef71840539 ("mm, vmstat: add infrastructure for per-node vmstats")
Signed-off-by: Gregory Price &lt;gourry@gourry.net&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: do file ownership checks with the proper mount idmap</title>
<updated>2026-08-23T12:17:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pedro Falcato</name>
<email>pfalcato@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-21T17:13:04+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e187bc02f8fa4226d62814592cf064ee4557c470 ]

Ever since idmapped mounts were introduced, inode ownership checks (for
side-channel protection) in mincore() and madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT) were done
against the nop_mnt_idmap, which completely ignores the file's mount's
idmap.  This results in odd edgecases like:

1) mount/bind-mount with an idmap userA:userB:1
2) userB runs an owner_or_capable() check on file that is owned by userA
on-disk/in-memory, but owned by userB after idmap translation
3) owner_or_capable() mysteriously fails as the correct idmap wasn't supplied

In the case of mincore/madvise MADV_PAGEOUT, this is usually benign,
because file_permission(file, MAY_WRITE) will probably succeed, as it uses
the proper idmap internally, but it does not need to be the case on e.g a
0444 file where even the owner itself doesn't have permissions to write to
it.

Since this is clearly not trivial to get right, introduce a
file_owner_or_capable() that can carry the correct semantics, and switch
the various users in mm to it.

The issue was found by manual code inspection &amp; an off-list discussion
with Jan Kara.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260625153853.913949-1-pfalcato@suse.de
Fixes: 9caccd41541a ("fs: introduce MOUNT_ATTR_IDMAP")
Signed-off-by: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/huge_memory: unlock i_mmap_rwsem before releasing after-split folios</title>
<updated>2026-08-19T15:14:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)</name>
<email>kas@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-05T13:45:12+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e923bd21058ea02fd0dcd3549d151d143fd036e5 ]

__folio_split() keeps dereferencing the mapping after the split:
shmem_uncharge(mapping-&gt;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) &lt;kas@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Hao Zhang &lt;zhanghao1@kylinos.cn&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260710071344.GA106129@zh-pc
Co-developed-by: Hao Zhang &lt;zhanghao1@kylinos.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hao Zhang &lt;zhanghao1@kylinos.cn&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Lance Yang &lt;lance.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;nao.horiguchi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nico Pache &lt;npache@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;

(cherry picked from commit e923bd21058ea02fd0dcd3549d151d143fd036e5)
[ kas: adapt to the __split_huge_page()/split_huge_page_to_list()
  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) &lt;kas@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/page_reporting: use system_freezable_wq to fix UAF during suspend</title>
<updated>2026-08-19T15:14:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Link Lin</name>
<email>linkl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-21T00:55:33+00:00</published>
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commit 0b45f6927a14914ff685fe0e6f9d11232a1e03df upstream.

During PM freeze (e.g.  S3 suspend or S4 hibernation), device drivers like
virtio_balloon reset their underlying virtio devices and delete their
virtqueues via vdev-&gt;config-&gt;del_vqs().

However, page reporting work (page_reporting_process) was scheduled on the
global system_wq.  Because system_wq lacks the WQ_FREEZABLE flag, the PM
freezer skips it, leaving page_reporting_process active during suspend.

If pages are freed into the buddy allocator while suspending (for example,
when core MM invokes the balloon shrinker during S4 hibernation image
saving), page reporting triggers virtballoon_free_page_report() on deleted
virtqueues, resulting in a Use-After-Free / General Protection Fault:

    [  196.795226] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xaa1436fe70dae6df: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
    [  196.825967] Workqueue: events page_reporting_process
    [  196.831038] RIP: 0010:virtqueue_add_split+0x233/0x4c0 [virtio_ring]
    [  196.927073] virtballoon_free_page_report+0x3a/0xe0 [virtio_balloon]
    [  196.946943] page_reporting_process+0x370/0x4f0

Fix this by switching page reporting work to system_freezable_wq.  This
ensures that the PM freezer pauses page_reporting_process before device
drivers destroy their reporting virtqueues.  Because the reporting worker
is frozen, memory reclamation/freeing (e.g.  via shrinker execution) can
safely return pages to MM during freeze without triggering unfrozen
reporting work on deleted virtqueues.

This aligns with the driver's existing design. The comment in
virtballoon_freeze() states:
    /*
     * The workqueue is already frozen by the PM core before this
     * function is called.
     */

Testing:
I have verified these fixes using Google’s virtualization infrastructure
by running continuous suspend/resume iterations (40+ cycles) while
churning memory using stress-ng (`stress-ng --vm 4 --vm-bytes 60%
--timeout 1`) to constantly create free pages for the buddy allocator.  We
also set the `page_reporting_order` parameter to 0 to make the page
reporting worker highly sensitive, forcing it to pick up any 4K free
pages.  This confirmed that the UAF crashes are no longer reproducible.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260721005603.1710551-1-linkl@google.com
Fixes: 36e66c554b5c ("mm: introduce Reported pages")
Signed-off-by: Link Lin &lt;linkl@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.duyck@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Houghton &lt;jthoughton@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiaqi Yan &lt;jiaqiyan@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Xuan Zhuo &lt;xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/hugetlb: fix list corruption in allocate_file_region_entries()</title>
<updated>2026-08-19T15:14:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiangfeng Cai</name>
<email>caixiangfeng@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-13T17:14:55+00:00</published>
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commit dd9623f58ec702a07b2d67179d6fcea79c52231a upstream.

allocate_file_region_entries() tops up resv-&gt;region_cache with freshly
allocated file_region descriptors.  The allocation uses GFP_KERNEL, so
resv-&gt;lock is dropped around it: the new entries are gathered on a
stack-local list head, allocated_regions, and spliced into
resv-&gt;region_cache once the lock is re-acquired.

The splice used list_splice(), which moves the entries but does not
re-initialize the source head, so allocated_regions is left pointing at an
entry that now lives on resv-&gt;region_cache.  The top-up runs in a while
loop that re-checks the cache deficit after re-acquiring the lock.  For a
shared mapping the resv_map is shared by every mapper of the hugetlbfs
inode, so a concurrent region_chg()/region_add()/region_del() on the same
resv_map can consume cache entries during the unlocked window and force a
second iteration.  That iteration calls list_add() on the stale head and
corrupts the list; with CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST the __list_add_valid() check
trips:

  list_add corruption. next-&gt;prev should be prev (ffffc900011ff7f8),
  but was ffff88814c281460. (next=ffff88814c545640).
  kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:31!
   allocate_file_region_entries+0x191/0x420
   region_chg+0x267/0x300
   hugetlb_reserve_pages+0x387/0xc80
   hugetlbfs_file_mmap+0x2ce/0x3f0
   mmap_region+0x1348/0x1a80
   do_mmap+0x85e/0xb90
   vm_mmap_pgoff+0x18c/0x330
   ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x2a1/0x3e0
   do_syscall_64+0xd7/0x420

Without CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST the bad list_add() silently links a kernel-stack
address into resv-&gt;region_cache, leading to later use-after-free.

This was observed as a real host panic on a dense KVM host where a QEMU
guest-RAM hugetlbfs file was mapped MAP_SHARED by both QEMU and a separate
SPDK/DPDK vhost-user target, generating concurrent region_* traffic on one
shared resv_map.

Use list_splice_init() so the source head is re-initialized empty after
each splice, making the retry loop safe.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260713171456.300518-2-caixiangfeng@bytedance.com
Fixes: d3ec7b6e09e5 ("mm/hugetlb: use list_splice to merge two list at once")
Signed-off-by: Xiangfeng Cai &lt;caixiangfeng@bytedance.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;baoquan.he@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/percpu-km: fix bitmap overflow and accounting in pcpu_create_chunk()</title>
<updated>2026-08-19T15:14:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zi Yan</name>
<email>ziy@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-09T19:12:01+00:00</published>
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commit 89b1b79c308818a715e75f28744b70d8940a07c9 upstream.

In pcpu_create_chunk(), nr_pages is the total contiguous backing
allocation, i.e., nr_units * pcpu_unit_pages, but pcpu_chunk_populated()
uses it to set chunk-&gt;populated, whose size is pcpu_unit_pages, bitmap.
Since bit N in chunk-&gt;populated means page offset N inside every unit is
backed.  When nr_units &gt; 1, the function writes beyond chunk-&gt;populated.
Fix it by using chunk-&gt;nr_pages.

It also fixes the global pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages accounting, since
pcpu_balance_free() only iterates up to chunk-&gt;nr_pages.

Commit a63d4ac4ab609 ("percpu: make percpu-km set chunk-&gt;populated bitmap
properly") introduced the bitmap overflow issue.  Later, commit
b539b87fed37f ("percpu: implmeent pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages and
chunk-&gt;nr_populated") added pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages and caused the
accounting issue.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260709-fix-pcpu_create_chunk-in-percpu-km-v1-1-1f64745a84cc@nvidia.com
Fixes: a63d4ac4ab609 ("percpu: make percpu-km set chunk-&gt;populated bitmap properly")
Reported-by: Sashiko &lt;sashiko-bot@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260703-keep-subpage-private-zero-at-free-v2-0-2970fe777dd6%40nvidia.com?part=1
Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/huge_memory: update file PMD counter before folio_put()</title>
<updated>2026-06-19T11:33:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yin Tirui</name>
<email>yintirui@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-16T01:35:03+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8d878059924f12c1bc24556a92ec56add74de3c8 ]

__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 &lt;yintirui@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang &lt;lance.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chen Jun &lt;chenjun102@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Nico Pache &lt;npache@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers</title>
<updated>2026-06-19T11:33:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-30T11:40:43+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit de4eda9de2d957ef2d6a8365a01e26a435e958cb ]

READ/WRITE proved to be actively confusing - the meanings are
"data destination, as used with read(2)" and "data source, as
used with write(2)", but people keep interpreting those as
"we read data from it" and "we write data to it", i.e. exactly
the wrong way.

Call them ITER_DEST and ITER_SOURCE - at least that is harder
to misinterpret...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Stable-dep-of: a4f0b001782b ("vsock/virtio: reset connection on receiving queue overflow")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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