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<title>mm/page_alloc: fix hash table order logging in alloc_large_system_hash()</title>
<updated>2025-12-03T11:45:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Isaac J. Manjarres</name>
<email>isaacmanjarres@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-20T19:34:22+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0d6c356dd6547adac2b06b461528e3573f52d953 ]

When emitting the order of the allocation for a hash table,
alloc_large_system_hash() unconditionally subtracts PAGE_SHIFT from log
base 2 of the allocation size.  This is not correct if the allocation size
is smaller than a page, and yields a negative value for the order as seen
below:

TCP established hash table entries: 32 (order: -4, 256 bytes, linear) TCP
bind hash table entries: 32 (order: -2, 1024 bytes, linear)

Use get_order() to compute the order when emitting the hash table
information to correctly handle cases where the allocation size is smaller
than a page:

TCP established hash table entries: 32 (order: 0, 256 bytes, linear) TCP
bind hash table entries: 32 (order: 0, 1024 bytes, linear)

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251028191020.413002-1-isaacmanjarres@google.com
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Isaac J. Manjarres &lt;isaacmanjarres@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
(cherry picked from commit 0d6c356dd6547adac2b06b461528e3573f52d953)
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0d6c356dd6547adac2b06b461528e3573f52d953 ]

When emitting the order of the allocation for a hash table,
alloc_large_system_hash() unconditionally subtracts PAGE_SHIFT from log
base 2 of the allocation size.  This is not correct if the allocation size
is smaller than a page, and yields a negative value for the order as seen
below:

TCP established hash table entries: 32 (order: -4, 256 bytes, linear) TCP
bind hash table entries: 32 (order: -2, 1024 bytes, linear)

Use get_order() to compute the order when emitting the hash table
information to correctly handle cases where the allocation size is smaller
than a page:

TCP established hash table entries: 32 (order: 0, 256 bytes, linear) TCP
bind hash table entries: 32 (order: 0, 1024 bytes, linear)

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251028191020.413002-1-isaacmanjarres@google.com
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Isaac J. Manjarres &lt;isaacmanjarres@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
(cherry picked from commit 0d6c356dd6547adac2b06b461528e3573f52d953)
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: hugetlb: avoid soft lockup when mprotect to large memory area</title>
<updated>2025-10-29T12:59:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yang Shi</name>
<email>yang@os.amperecomputing.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-29T20:24:02+00:00</published>
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commit f52ce0ea90c83a28904c7cc203a70e6434adfecb upstream.

When calling mprotect() to a large hugetlb memory area in our customer's
workload (~300GB hugetlb memory), soft lockup was observed:

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#98 stuck for 23s! [t2_new_sysv:126916]

CPU: 98 PID: 126916 Comm: t2_new_sysv Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.17-rc7
Hardware name: GIGACOMPUTING R2A3-T40-AAV1/Jefferson CIO, BIOS 5.4.4.1 07/15/2025
pstate: 20400009 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : mte_clear_page_tags+0x14/0x24
lr : mte_sync_tags+0x1c0/0x240
sp : ffff80003150bb80
x29: ffff80003150bb80 x28: ffff00739e9705a8 x27: 0000ffd2d6a00000
x26: 0000ff8e4bc00000 x25: 00e80046cde00f45 x24: 0000000000022458
x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000000004 x21: 000000011b380000
x20: ffff000000000000 x19: 000000011b379f40 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000
x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : ffffc875e0aa5e2c
x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : fffffc01ce7a5c00 x4 : 00000000046cde00 x3 : fffffc0000000000
x2 : 0000000000000004 x1 : 0000000000000040 x0 : ffff0046cde7c000

Call trace:
  mte_clear_page_tags+0x14/0x24
  set_huge_pte_at+0x25c/0x280
  hugetlb_change_protection+0x220/0x430
  change_protection+0x5c/0x8c
  mprotect_fixup+0x10c/0x294
  do_mprotect_pkey.constprop.0+0x2e0/0x3d4
  __arm64_sys_mprotect+0x24/0x44
  invoke_syscall+0x50/0x160
  el0_svc_common+0x48/0x144
  do_el0_svc+0x30/0xe0
  el0_svc+0x30/0xf0
  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc4/0x148
  el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8

Soft lockup is not triggered with THP or base page because there is
cond_resched() called for each PMD size.

Although the soft lockup was triggered by MTE, it should be not MTE
specific.  The other processing which takes long time in the loop may
trigger soft lockup too.

So add cond_resched() for hugetlb to avoid soft lockup.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250929202402.1663290-1-yang@os.amperecomputing.com
Fixes: 8f860591ffb2 ("[PATCH] Enable mprotect on huge pages")
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Tested-by: Carl Worth &lt;carl@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) &lt;cl@gentwo.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&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;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit f52ce0ea90c83a28904c7cc203a70e6434adfecb upstream.

When calling mprotect() to a large hugetlb memory area in our customer's
workload (~300GB hugetlb memory), soft lockup was observed:

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#98 stuck for 23s! [t2_new_sysv:126916]

CPU: 98 PID: 126916 Comm: t2_new_sysv Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.17-rc7
Hardware name: GIGACOMPUTING R2A3-T40-AAV1/Jefferson CIO, BIOS 5.4.4.1 07/15/2025
pstate: 20400009 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : mte_clear_page_tags+0x14/0x24
lr : mte_sync_tags+0x1c0/0x240
sp : ffff80003150bb80
x29: ffff80003150bb80 x28: ffff00739e9705a8 x27: 0000ffd2d6a00000
x26: 0000ff8e4bc00000 x25: 00e80046cde00f45 x24: 0000000000022458
x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000000004 x21: 000000011b380000
x20: ffff000000000000 x19: 000000011b379f40 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000
x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : ffffc875e0aa5e2c
x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : fffffc01ce7a5c00 x4 : 00000000046cde00 x3 : fffffc0000000000
x2 : 0000000000000004 x1 : 0000000000000040 x0 : ffff0046cde7c000

Call trace:
  mte_clear_page_tags+0x14/0x24
  set_huge_pte_at+0x25c/0x280
  hugetlb_change_protection+0x220/0x430
  change_protection+0x5c/0x8c
  mprotect_fixup+0x10c/0x294
  do_mprotect_pkey.constprop.0+0x2e0/0x3d4
  __arm64_sys_mprotect+0x24/0x44
  invoke_syscall+0x50/0x160
  el0_svc_common+0x48/0x144
  do_el0_svc+0x30/0xe0
  el0_svc+0x30/0xf0
  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc4/0x148
  el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8

Soft lockup is not triggered with THP or base page because there is
cond_resched() called for each PMD size.

Although the soft lockup was triggered by MTE, it should be not MTE
specific.  The other processing which takes long time in the loop may
trigger soft lockup too.

So add cond_resched() for hugetlb to avoid soft lockup.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250929202402.1663290-1-yang@os.amperecomputing.com
Fixes: 8f860591ffb2 ("[PATCH] Enable mprotect on huge pages")
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Tested-by: Carl Worth &lt;carl@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) &lt;cl@gentwo.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&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;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/migrate_device: don't add folio to be freed to LRU in migrate_device_finalize()</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T11:34:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-10T16:13:17+00:00</published>
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commit 41cddf83d8b00f29fd105e7a0777366edc69a5cf upstream.

If migration succeeded, we called
folio_migrate_flags()-&gt;mem_cgroup_migrate() to migrate the memcg from the
old to the new folio.  This will set memcg_data of the old folio to 0.

Similarly, if migration failed, memcg_data of the dst folio is left unset.

If we call folio_putback_lru() on such folios (memcg_data == 0), we will
add the folio to be freed to the LRU, making memcg code unhappy.  Running
the hmm selftests:

  # ./hmm-tests
  ...
  #  RUN           hmm.hmm_device_private.migrate ...
  [  102.078007][T14893] page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x7ff27d200 pfn:0x13cc00
  [  102.079974][T14893] anon flags: 0x17ff00000020018(uptodate|dirty|swapbacked|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
  [  102.082037][T14893] raw: 017ff00000020018 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 ffff8881353896c9
  [  102.083687][T14893] raw: 00000007ff27d200 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
  [  102.085331][T14893] page dumped because: VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO(!memcg &amp;&amp; !mem_cgroup_disabled())
  [  102.087230][T14893] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [  102.088279][T14893] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 14893 at ./include/linux/memcontrol.h:726 folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x10e/0x170
  [  102.090478][T14893] Modules linked in:
  [  102.091244][T14893] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 14893 Comm: hmm-tests Not tainted 6.13.0-09623-g6c216bc522fd #151
  [  102.093089][T14893] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-2.fc40 04/01/2014
  [  102.094848][T14893] RIP: 0010:folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x10e/0x170
  [  102.096104][T14893] Code: ...
  [  102.099908][T14893] RSP: 0018:ffffc900236c37b0 EFLAGS: 00010293
  [  102.101152][T14893] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffea0004f30000 RCX: ffffffff8183f426
  [  102.102684][T14893] RDX: ffff8881063cb880 RSI: ffffffff81b8117f RDI: ffff8881063cb880
  [  102.104227][T14893] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
  [  102.105757][T14893] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffffc900236c37d8
  [  102.107296][T14893] R13: ffff888277a2bcb0 R14: 000000000000001f R15: 0000000000000000
  [  102.108830][T14893] FS:  00007ff27dbdd740(0000) GS:ffff888277a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  [  102.110643][T14893] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  [  102.111924][T14893] CR2: 00007ff27d400000 CR3: 000000010866e000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0
  [  102.113478][T14893] PKRU: 55555554
  [  102.114172][T14893] Call Trace:
  [  102.114805][T14893]  &lt;TASK&gt;
  [  102.115397][T14893]  ? folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x10e/0x170
  [  102.116547][T14893]  ? __warn.cold+0x110/0x210
  [  102.117461][T14893]  ? folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x10e/0x170
  [  102.118667][T14893]  ? report_bug+0x1b9/0x320
  [  102.119571][T14893]  ? handle_bug+0x54/0x90
  [  102.120494][T14893]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x50
  [  102.121433][T14893]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
  [  102.122435][T14893]  ? __wake_up_klogd.part.0+0x76/0xd0
  [  102.123506][T14893]  ? dump_page+0x4f/0x60
  [  102.124352][T14893]  ? folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x10e/0x170
  [  102.125500][T14893]  folio_batch_move_lru+0xd4/0x200
  [  102.126577][T14893]  ? __pfx_lru_add+0x10/0x10
  [  102.127505][T14893]  __folio_batch_add_and_move+0x391/0x720
  [  102.128633][T14893]  ? __pfx_lru_add+0x10/0x10
  [  102.129550][T14893]  folio_putback_lru+0x16/0x80
  [  102.130564][T14893]  migrate_device_finalize+0x9b/0x530
  [  102.131640][T14893]  dmirror_migrate_to_device.constprop.0+0x7c5/0xad0
  [  102.133047][T14893]  dmirror_fops_unlocked_ioctl+0x89b/0xc80

Likely, nothing else goes wrong: putting the last folio reference will
remove the folio from the LRU again.  So besides memcg complaining, adding
the folio to be freed to the LRU is just an unnecessary step.

The new flow resembles what we have in migrate_folio_move(): add the dst
to the lru, remove migration ptes, unlock and unref dst.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250210161317.717936-1-david@redhat.com
Fixes: 8763cb45ab96 ("mm/migrate: new memory migration helper for use with device memory")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jérôme Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 41cddf83d8b00f29fd105e7a0777366edc69a5cf upstream.

If migration succeeded, we called
folio_migrate_flags()-&gt;mem_cgroup_migrate() to migrate the memcg from the
old to the new folio.  This will set memcg_data of the old folio to 0.

Similarly, if migration failed, memcg_data of the dst folio is left unset.

If we call folio_putback_lru() on such folios (memcg_data == 0), we will
add the folio to be freed to the LRU, making memcg code unhappy.  Running
the hmm selftests:

  # ./hmm-tests
  ...
  #  RUN           hmm.hmm_device_private.migrate ...
  [  102.078007][T14893] page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x7ff27d200 pfn:0x13cc00
  [  102.079974][T14893] anon flags: 0x17ff00000020018(uptodate|dirty|swapbacked|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
  [  102.082037][T14893] raw: 017ff00000020018 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 ffff8881353896c9
  [  102.083687][T14893] raw: 00000007ff27d200 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
  [  102.085331][T14893] page dumped because: VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO(!memcg &amp;&amp; !mem_cgroup_disabled())
  [  102.087230][T14893] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [  102.088279][T14893] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 14893 at ./include/linux/memcontrol.h:726 folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x10e/0x170
  [  102.090478][T14893] Modules linked in:
  [  102.091244][T14893] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 14893 Comm: hmm-tests Not tainted 6.13.0-09623-g6c216bc522fd #151
  [  102.093089][T14893] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-2.fc40 04/01/2014
  [  102.094848][T14893] RIP: 0010:folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x10e/0x170
  [  102.096104][T14893] Code: ...
  [  102.099908][T14893] RSP: 0018:ffffc900236c37b0 EFLAGS: 00010293
  [  102.101152][T14893] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffea0004f30000 RCX: ffffffff8183f426
  [  102.102684][T14893] RDX: ffff8881063cb880 RSI: ffffffff81b8117f RDI: ffff8881063cb880
  [  102.104227][T14893] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
  [  102.105757][T14893] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffffc900236c37d8
  [  102.107296][T14893] R13: ffff888277a2bcb0 R14: 000000000000001f R15: 0000000000000000
  [  102.108830][T14893] FS:  00007ff27dbdd740(0000) GS:ffff888277a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  [  102.110643][T14893] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  [  102.111924][T14893] CR2: 00007ff27d400000 CR3: 000000010866e000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0
  [  102.113478][T14893] PKRU: 55555554
  [  102.114172][T14893] Call Trace:
  [  102.114805][T14893]  &lt;TASK&gt;
  [  102.115397][T14893]  ? folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x10e/0x170
  [  102.116547][T14893]  ? __warn.cold+0x110/0x210
  [  102.117461][T14893]  ? folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x10e/0x170
  [  102.118667][T14893]  ? report_bug+0x1b9/0x320
  [  102.119571][T14893]  ? handle_bug+0x54/0x90
  [  102.120494][T14893]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x50
  [  102.121433][T14893]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
  [  102.122435][T14893]  ? __wake_up_klogd.part.0+0x76/0xd0
  [  102.123506][T14893]  ? dump_page+0x4f/0x60
  [  102.124352][T14893]  ? folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x10e/0x170
  [  102.125500][T14893]  folio_batch_move_lru+0xd4/0x200
  [  102.126577][T14893]  ? __pfx_lru_add+0x10/0x10
  [  102.127505][T14893]  __folio_batch_add_and_move+0x391/0x720
  [  102.128633][T14893]  ? __pfx_lru_add+0x10/0x10
  [  102.129550][T14893]  folio_putback_lru+0x16/0x80
  [  102.130564][T14893]  migrate_device_finalize+0x9b/0x530
  [  102.131640][T14893]  dmirror_migrate_to_device.constprop.0+0x7c5/0xad0
  [  102.133047][T14893]  dmirror_fops_unlocked_ioctl+0x89b/0xc80

Likely, nothing else goes wrong: putting the last folio reference will
remove the folio from the LRU again.  So besides memcg complaining, adding
the folio to be freed to the LRU is just an unnecessary step.

The new flow resembles what we have in migrate_folio_move(): add the dst
to the lru, remove migration ptes, unlock and unref dst.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250210161317.717936-1-david@redhat.com
Fixes: 8763cb45ab96 ("mm/migrate: new memory migration helper for use with device memory")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jérôme Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/memory-failure: fix VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page)) when unpoison memory</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T11:34:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miaohe Lin</name>
<email>linmiaohe@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-14T13:30:42+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d613f53c83ec47089c4e25859d5e8e0359f6f8da ]

When I did memory failure tests, below panic occurs:

page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page))
kernel BUG at include/linux/page-flags.h:616!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 3 PID: 720 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.10.0-rc1-00195-g148743902568 #40
RIP: 0010:unpoison_memory+0x2f3/0x590
RSP: 0018:ffffa57fc8787d60 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000037 RBX: 0000000000000009 RCX: ffff9be25fcdc9c8
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff9be25fcdc9c0
RBP: 0000000000300000 R08: ffffffffb4956f88 R09: 0000000000009ffb
R10: 0000000000000284 R11: ffffffffb4926fa0 R12: ffffe6b00c000000
R13: ffff9bdb453dfd00 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: fffffffffffffffe
FS:  00007f08f04e4740(0000) GS:ffff9be25fcc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000564787a30410 CR3: 000000010d4e2000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 unpoison_memory+0x2f3/0x590
 simple_attr_write_xsigned.constprop.0.isra.0+0xb3/0x110
 debugfs_attr_write+0x42/0x60
 full_proxy_write+0x5b/0x80
 vfs_write+0xd5/0x540
 ksys_write+0x64/0xe0
 do_syscall_64+0xb9/0x1d0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f08f0314887
RSP: 002b:00007ffece710078 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000009 RCX: 00007f08f0314887
RDX: 0000000000000009 RSI: 0000564787a30410 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000564787a30410 R08: 000000000000fefe R09: 000000007fffffff
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000009
R13: 00007f08f041b780 R14: 00007f08f0417600 R15: 00007f08f0416a00
 &lt;/TASK&gt;
Modules linked in: hwpoison_inject
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:unpoison_memory+0x2f3/0x590
RSP: 0018:ffffa57fc8787d60 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000037 RBX: 0000000000000009 RCX: ffff9be25fcdc9c8
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff9be25fcdc9c0
RBP: 0000000000300000 R08: ffffffffb4956f88 R09: 0000000000009ffb
R10: 0000000000000284 R11: ffffffffb4926fa0 R12: ffffe6b00c000000
R13: ffff9bdb453dfd00 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: fffffffffffffffe
FS:  00007f08f04e4740(0000) GS:ffff9be25fcc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000564787a30410 CR3: 000000010d4e2000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
Kernel Offset: 0x31c00000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception ]---

The root cause is that unpoison_memory() tries to check the PG_HWPoison
flags of an uninitialized page.  So VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page)) is
triggered.  This can be reproduced by below steps:

1.Offline memory block:

 echo offline &gt; /sys/devices/system/memory/memory12/state

2.Get offlined memory pfn:

 page-types -b n -rlN

3.Write pfn to unpoison-pfn

 echo &lt;pfn&gt; &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/hwpoison/unpoison-pfn

This scenario can be identified by pfn_to_online_page() returning NULL.
And ZONE_DEVICE pages are never expected, so we can simply fail if
pfn_to_online_page() == NULL to fix the bug.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250828024618.1744895-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Fixes: f1dd2cd13c4b ("mm, memory_hotplug: do not associate hotadded memory to zones until online")
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;nao.horiguchi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[ Adjust context ]
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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[ Upstream commit d613f53c83ec47089c4e25859d5e8e0359f6f8da ]

When I did memory failure tests, below panic occurs:

page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page))
kernel BUG at include/linux/page-flags.h:616!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 3 PID: 720 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.10.0-rc1-00195-g148743902568 #40
RIP: 0010:unpoison_memory+0x2f3/0x590
RSP: 0018:ffffa57fc8787d60 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000037 RBX: 0000000000000009 RCX: ffff9be25fcdc9c8
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff9be25fcdc9c0
RBP: 0000000000300000 R08: ffffffffb4956f88 R09: 0000000000009ffb
R10: 0000000000000284 R11: ffffffffb4926fa0 R12: ffffe6b00c000000
R13: ffff9bdb453dfd00 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: fffffffffffffffe
FS:  00007f08f04e4740(0000) GS:ffff9be25fcc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000564787a30410 CR3: 000000010d4e2000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 unpoison_memory+0x2f3/0x590
 simple_attr_write_xsigned.constprop.0.isra.0+0xb3/0x110
 debugfs_attr_write+0x42/0x60
 full_proxy_write+0x5b/0x80
 vfs_write+0xd5/0x540
 ksys_write+0x64/0xe0
 do_syscall_64+0xb9/0x1d0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f08f0314887
RSP: 002b:00007ffece710078 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000009 RCX: 00007f08f0314887
RDX: 0000000000000009 RSI: 0000564787a30410 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000564787a30410 R08: 000000000000fefe R09: 000000007fffffff
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000009
R13: 00007f08f041b780 R14: 00007f08f0417600 R15: 00007f08f0416a00
 &lt;/TASK&gt;
Modules linked in: hwpoison_inject
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:unpoison_memory+0x2f3/0x590
RSP: 0018:ffffa57fc8787d60 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000037 RBX: 0000000000000009 RCX: ffff9be25fcdc9c8
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff9be25fcdc9c0
RBP: 0000000000300000 R08: ffffffffb4956f88 R09: 0000000000009ffb
R10: 0000000000000284 R11: ffffffffb4926fa0 R12: ffffe6b00c000000
R13: ffff9bdb453dfd00 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: fffffffffffffffe
FS:  00007f08f04e4740(0000) GS:ffff9be25fcc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000564787a30410 CR3: 000000010d4e2000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
Kernel Offset: 0x31c00000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception ]---

The root cause is that unpoison_memory() tries to check the PG_HWPoison
flags of an uninitialized page.  So VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page)) is
triggered.  This can be reproduced by below steps:

1.Offline memory block:

 echo offline &gt; /sys/devices/system/memory/memory12/state

2.Get offlined memory pfn:

 page-types -b n -rlN

3.Write pfn to unpoison-pfn

 echo &lt;pfn&gt; &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/hwpoison/unpoison-pfn

This scenario can be identified by pfn_to_online_page() returning NULL.
And ZONE_DEVICE pages are never expected, so we can simply fail if
pfn_to_online_page() == NULL to fix the bug.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250828024618.1744895-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Fixes: f1dd2cd13c4b ("mm, memory_hotplug: do not associate hotadded memory to zones until online")
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;nao.horiguchi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[ Adjust context ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/khugepaged: fix the address passed to notifier on testing young</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T11:34:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wei Yang</name>
<email>richard.weiyang@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-22T06:33:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b6590e47053813b39ee6eadee6e51bb4a85b538d'/>
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commit 394bfac1c7f7b701c2c93834c5761b9c9ceeebcf upstream.

Commit 8ee53820edfd ("thp: mmu_notifier_test_young") introduced
mmu_notifier_test_young(), but we are passing the wrong address.
In xxx_scan_pmd(), the actual iteration address is "_address" not
"address".  We seem to misuse the variable on the very beginning.

Change it to the right one.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org fix whitespace, per everyone]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250822063318.11644-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Fixes: 8ee53820edfd ("thp: mmu_notifier_test_young")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Nico Pache &lt;npache@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&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;
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commit 394bfac1c7f7b701c2c93834c5761b9c9ceeebcf upstream.

Commit 8ee53820edfd ("thp: mmu_notifier_test_young") introduced
mmu_notifier_test_young(), but we are passing the wrong address.
In xxx_scan_pmd(), the actual iteration address is "_address" not
"address".  We seem to misuse the variable on the very beginning.

Change it to the right one.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org fix whitespace, per everyone]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250822063318.11644-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Fixes: 8ee53820edfd ("thp: mmu_notifier_test_young")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Nico Pache &lt;npache@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&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;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/slub: avoid accessing metadata when pointer is invalid in object_err()</title>
<updated>2025-09-09T16:43:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Qiong</name>
<email>liqiong@nfschina.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-07T02:38:21+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b4efccec8d06ceb10a7d34d7b1c449c569d53770 ]

object_err() reports details of an object for further debugging, such as
the freelist pointer, redzone, etc. However, if the pointer is invalid,
attempting to access object metadata can lead to a crash since it does
not point to a valid object.

One known path to the crash is when alloc_consistency_checks()
determines the pointer to the allocated object is invalid because of a
freelist corruption, and calls object_err() to report it. The debug code
should report and handle the corruption gracefully and not crash in the
process.

In case the pointer is NULL or check_valid_pointer() returns false for
the pointer, only print the pointer value and skip accessing metadata.

Fixes: 81819f0fc828 ("SLUB core")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Li Qiong &lt;liqiong@nfschina.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo &lt;harry.yoo@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
[ struct page + print_page_info() ]
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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[ Upstream commit b4efccec8d06ceb10a7d34d7b1c449c569d53770 ]

object_err() reports details of an object for further debugging, such as
the freelist pointer, redzone, etc. However, if the pointer is invalid,
attempting to access object metadata can lead to a crash since it does
not point to a valid object.

One known path to the crash is when alloc_consistency_checks()
determines the pointer to the allocated object is invalid because of a
freelist corruption, and calls object_err() to report it. The debug code
should report and handle the corruption gracefully and not crash in the
process.

In case the pointer is NULL or check_valid_pointer() returns false for
the pointer, only print the pointer value and skip accessing metadata.

Fixes: 81819f0fc828 ("SLUB core")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Li Qiong &lt;liqiong@nfschina.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo &lt;harry.yoo@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
[ struct page + print_page_info() ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/khugepaged: fix -&gt;anon_vma race</title>
<updated>2025-09-09T16:43:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-11T13:33:51+00:00</published>
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commit 023f47a8250c6bdb4aebe744db4bf7f73414028b upstream.

If an -&gt;anon_vma is attached to the VMA, collapse_and_free_pmd() requires
it to be locked.

Page table traversal is allowed under any one of the mmap lock, the
anon_vma lock (if the VMA is associated with an anon_vma), and the
mapping lock (if the VMA is associated with a mapping); and so to be
able to remove page tables, we must hold all three of them.
retract_page_tables() bails out if an -&gt;anon_vma is attached, but does
this check before holding the mmap lock (as the comment above the check
explains).

If we racily merged an existing -&gt;anon_vma (shared with a child
process) from a neighboring VMA, subsequent rmap traversals on pages
belonging to the child will be able to see the page tables that we are
concurrently removing while assuming that nothing else can access them.

Repeat the -&gt;anon_vma check once we hold the mmap lock to ensure that
there really is no concurrent page table access.

Hitting this bug causes a lockdep warning in collapse_and_free_pmd(),
in the line "lockdep_assert_held_write(&amp;vma-&gt;anon_vma-&gt;root-&gt;rwsem)".
It can also lead to use-after-free access.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAG48ez3434wZBKFFbdx4M9j6eUwSUVPd4dxhzW_k_POneSDF+A@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230111133351.807024-1-jannh@google.com
Fixes: f3f0e1d2150b ("khugepaged: add support of collapse for tmpfs/shmem pages")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Zach O'Keefe &lt;zokeefe@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@intel.linux.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[doebel@amazon.de: Kernel 5.4 uses different control flow and locking
    mechanism. Context adjustments.]
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Doebel &lt;doebel@amazon.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 023f47a8250c6bdb4aebe744db4bf7f73414028b upstream.

If an -&gt;anon_vma is attached to the VMA, collapse_and_free_pmd() requires
it to be locked.

Page table traversal is allowed under any one of the mmap lock, the
anon_vma lock (if the VMA is associated with an anon_vma), and the
mapping lock (if the VMA is associated with a mapping); and so to be
able to remove page tables, we must hold all three of them.
retract_page_tables() bails out if an -&gt;anon_vma is attached, but does
this check before holding the mmap lock (as the comment above the check
explains).

If we racily merged an existing -&gt;anon_vma (shared with a child
process) from a neighboring VMA, subsequent rmap traversals on pages
belonging to the child will be able to see the page tables that we are
concurrently removing while assuming that nothing else can access them.

Repeat the -&gt;anon_vma check once we hold the mmap lock to ensure that
there really is no concurrent page table access.

Hitting this bug causes a lockdep warning in collapse_and_free_pmd(),
in the line "lockdep_assert_held_write(&amp;vma-&gt;anon_vma-&gt;root-&gt;rwsem)".
It can also lead to use-after-free access.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAG48ez3434wZBKFFbdx4M9j6eUwSUVPd4dxhzW_k_POneSDF+A@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230111133351.807024-1-jannh@google.com
Fixes: f3f0e1d2150b ("khugepaged: add support of collapse for tmpfs/shmem pages")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Zach O'Keefe &lt;zokeefe@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@intel.linux.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[doebel@amazon.de: Kernel 5.4 uses different control flow and locking
    mechanism. Context adjustments.]
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Doebel &lt;doebel@amazon.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: perform the mapping_map_writable() check after call_mmap()</title>
<updated>2025-08-28T14:21:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lstoakes@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-30T00:58:08+00:00</published>
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In order for a F_SEAL_WRITE sealed memfd mapping to have an opportunity to
clear VM_MAYWRITE, we must be able to invoke the appropriate
vm_ops-&gt;mmap() handler to do so.  We would otherwise fail the
mapping_map_writable() check before we had the opportunity to avoid it.

This patch moves this check after the call_mmap() invocation.  Only memfd
actively denies write access causing a potential failure here (in
memfd_add_seals()), so there should be no impact on non-memfd cases.

This patch makes the userland-visible change that MAP_SHARED, PROT_READ
mappings of an F_SEAL_WRITE sealed memfd mapping will now succeed.

There is a delicate situation with cleanup paths assuming that a writable
mapping must have occurred in circumstances where it may now not have.  In
order to ensure we do not accidentally mark a writable file unwritable by
mistake, we explicitly track whether we have a writable mapping and unmap
only if we do.

[lstoakes@gmail.com: do not set writable_file_mapping in inappropriate case]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c9eb4cc6-7db4-4c2b-838d-43a0b319a4f0@lucifer.local
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217238
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/55e413d20678a1bb4c7cce889062bbb07b0df892.1697116581.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
[isaacmanjarres: added error handling to cleanup the work done by the
mmap() callback and removed unused label.]
Signed-off-by: Isaac J. Manjarres &lt;isaacmanjarres@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 158978945f3173b8c1a88f8c5684a629736a57ac ]

In order for a F_SEAL_WRITE sealed memfd mapping to have an opportunity to
clear VM_MAYWRITE, we must be able to invoke the appropriate
vm_ops-&gt;mmap() handler to do so.  We would otherwise fail the
mapping_map_writable() check before we had the opportunity to avoid it.

This patch moves this check after the call_mmap() invocation.  Only memfd
actively denies write access causing a potential failure here (in
memfd_add_seals()), so there should be no impact on non-memfd cases.

This patch makes the userland-visible change that MAP_SHARED, PROT_READ
mappings of an F_SEAL_WRITE sealed memfd mapping will now succeed.

There is a delicate situation with cleanup paths assuming that a writable
mapping must have occurred in circumstances where it may now not have.  In
order to ensure we do not accidentally mark a writable file unwritable by
mistake, we explicitly track whether we have a writable mapping and unmap
only if we do.

[lstoakes@gmail.com: do not set writable_file_mapping in inappropriate case]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c9eb4cc6-7db4-4c2b-838d-43a0b319a4f0@lucifer.local
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217238
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/55e413d20678a1bb4c7cce889062bbb07b0df892.1697116581.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
[isaacmanjarres: added error handling to cleanup the work done by the
mmap() callback and removed unused label.]
Signed-off-by: Isaac J. Manjarres &lt;isaacmanjarres@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm: update memfd seal write check to include F_SEAL_WRITE</title>
<updated>2025-08-28T14:21:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lstoakes@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2025-07-30T00:58:07+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 28464bbb2ddc199433383994bcb9600c8034afa1 ]

The seal_check_future_write() function is called by shmem_mmap() or
hugetlbfs_file_mmap() to disallow any future writable mappings of an memfd
sealed this way.

The F_SEAL_WRITE flag is not checked here, as that is handled via the
mapping-&gt;i_mmap_writable mechanism and so any attempt at a mapping would
fail before this could be run.

However we intend to change this, meaning this check can be performed for
F_SEAL_WRITE mappings also.

The logic here is equally applicable to both flags, so update this
function to accommodate both and rename it accordingly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/913628168ce6cce77df7d13a63970bae06a526e0.1697116581.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Isaac J. Manjarres &lt;isaacmanjarres@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 28464bbb2ddc199433383994bcb9600c8034afa1 ]

The seal_check_future_write() function is called by shmem_mmap() or
hugetlbfs_file_mmap() to disallow any future writable mappings of an memfd
sealed this way.

The F_SEAL_WRITE flag is not checked here, as that is handled via the
mapping-&gt;i_mmap_writable mechanism and so any attempt at a mapping would
fail before this could be run.

However we intend to change this, meaning this check can be performed for
F_SEAL_WRITE mappings also.

The logic here is equally applicable to both flags, so update this
function to accommodate both and rename it accordingly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/913628168ce6cce77df7d13a63970bae06a526e0.1697116581.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Isaac J. Manjarres &lt;isaacmanjarres@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm: drop the assumption that VM_SHARED always implies writable</title>
<updated>2025-08-28T14:21:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lstoakes@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-30T00:58:06+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e8e17ee90eaf650c855adb0a3e5e965fd6692ff1 ]

Patch series "permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared mappings", v4.

The man page for fcntl() describing memfd file seals states the following
about F_SEAL_WRITE:-

    Furthermore, trying to create new shared, writable memory-mappings via
    mmap(2) will also fail with EPERM.

With emphasis on 'writable'.  In turns out in fact that currently the
kernel simply disallows all new shared memory mappings for a memfd with
F_SEAL_WRITE applied, rendering this documentation inaccurate.

This matters because users are therefore unable to obtain a shared mapping
to a memfd after write sealing altogether, which limits their usefulness.
This was reported in the discussion thread [1] originating from a bug
report [2].

This is a product of both using the struct address_space-&gt;i_mmap_writable
atomic counter to determine whether writing may be permitted, and the
kernel adjusting this counter when any VM_SHARED mapping is performed and
more generally implicitly assuming VM_SHARED implies writable.

It seems sensible that we should only update this mapping if VM_MAYWRITE
is specified, i.e.  whether it is possible that this mapping could at any
point be written to.

If we do so then all we need to do to permit write seals to function as
documented is to clear VM_MAYWRITE when mapping read-only.  It turns out
this functionality already exists for F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE - we can
therefore simply adapt this logic to do the same for F_SEAL_WRITE.

We then hit a chicken and egg situation in mmap_region() where the check
for VM_MAYWRITE occurs before we are able to clear this flag.  To work
around this, perform this check after we invoke call_mmap(), with careful
consideration of error paths.

Thanks to Andy Lutomirski for the suggestion!

[1]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230324133646.16101dfa666f253c4715d965@linux-foundation.org/
[2]:https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217238

This patch (of 3):

There is a general assumption that VMAs with the VM_SHARED flag set are
writable.  If the VM_MAYWRITE flag is not set, then this is simply not the
case.

Update those checks which affect the struct address_space-&gt;i_mmap_writable
field to explicitly test for this by introducing
[vma_]is_shared_maywrite() helper functions.

This remains entirely conservative, as the lack of VM_MAYWRITE guarantees
that the VMA cannot be written to.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1697116581.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d978aefefa83ec42d18dfa964ad180dbcde34795.1697116581.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Isaac J. Manjarres &lt;isaacmanjarres@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e8e17ee90eaf650c855adb0a3e5e965fd6692ff1 ]

Patch series "permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared mappings", v4.

The man page for fcntl() describing memfd file seals states the following
about F_SEAL_WRITE:-

    Furthermore, trying to create new shared, writable memory-mappings via
    mmap(2) will also fail with EPERM.

With emphasis on 'writable'.  In turns out in fact that currently the
kernel simply disallows all new shared memory mappings for a memfd with
F_SEAL_WRITE applied, rendering this documentation inaccurate.

This matters because users are therefore unable to obtain a shared mapping
to a memfd after write sealing altogether, which limits their usefulness.
This was reported in the discussion thread [1] originating from a bug
report [2].

This is a product of both using the struct address_space-&gt;i_mmap_writable
atomic counter to determine whether writing may be permitted, and the
kernel adjusting this counter when any VM_SHARED mapping is performed and
more generally implicitly assuming VM_SHARED implies writable.

It seems sensible that we should only update this mapping if VM_MAYWRITE
is specified, i.e.  whether it is possible that this mapping could at any
point be written to.

If we do so then all we need to do to permit write seals to function as
documented is to clear VM_MAYWRITE when mapping read-only.  It turns out
this functionality already exists for F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE - we can
therefore simply adapt this logic to do the same for F_SEAL_WRITE.

We then hit a chicken and egg situation in mmap_region() where the check
for VM_MAYWRITE occurs before we are able to clear this flag.  To work
around this, perform this check after we invoke call_mmap(), with careful
consideration of error paths.

Thanks to Andy Lutomirski for the suggestion!

[1]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230324133646.16101dfa666f253c4715d965@linux-foundation.org/
[2]:https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217238

This patch (of 3):

There is a general assumption that VMAs with the VM_SHARED flag set are
writable.  If the VM_MAYWRITE flag is not set, then this is simply not the
case.

Update those checks which affect the struct address_space-&gt;i_mmap_writable
field to explicitly test for this by introducing
[vma_]is_shared_maywrite() helper functions.

This remains entirely conservative, as the lack of VM_MAYWRITE guarantees
that the VMA cannot be written to.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1697116581.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d978aefefa83ec42d18dfa964ad180dbcde34795.1697116581.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Isaac J. Manjarres &lt;isaacmanjarres@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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