From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,vbabka@suse.cz,sj@kernel.org,shuah@kernel.org,ryncsn@gmail.com,richard.weiyang@gmail.com,lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com,lianux.mm@gmail.com,liam.howlett@oracle.com,jannh@google.com,david@redhat.com,broonie@kernel.org,brauner@kernel.org,ziy@nvidia.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-hotfixes-stable] selftests-mm-fix-force_read-to-read-input-value-correctly.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 22:46:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250828054615.7A146C4CEEB@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: selftests/mm: fix FORCE_READ to read input value correctly
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
selftests-mm-fix-force_read-to-read-input-value-correctly.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------
From: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Subject: selftests/mm: fix FORCE_READ to read input value correctly
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2025 13:51:40 -0400
FORCE_READ() converts input value x to its pointer type then reads from
address x. This is wrong. If x is a non-pointer, it would be caught it
easily. But all FORCE_READ() callers are trying to read from a pointer
and FORCE_READ() basically reads a pointer to a pointer instead of the
original typed pointer. Almost no access violation was found, except the
one from split_huge_page_test.
Fix it by implementing a simplified READ_ONCE() instead.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805175140.241656-1-ziy@nvidia.com
Fixes: 3f6bfd4789a0 ("selftests/mm: reuse FORCE_READ to replace "asm volatile("" : "+r" (XXX));"")
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: wang lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c | 4 ++--
tools/testing/selftests/mm/guard-regions.c | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugetlb-madvise.c | 4 +++-
tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration.c | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/mm/pagemap_ioctl.c | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c | 7 +++++--
tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h | 2 +-
7 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c~selftests-mm-fix-force_read-to-read-input-value-correctly
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c
@@ -1554,8 +1554,8 @@ static void run_with_zeropage(non_anon_t
}
/* Read from the page to populate the shared zeropage. */
- FORCE_READ(mem);
- FORCE_READ(smem);
+ FORCE_READ(*mem);
+ FORCE_READ(*smem);
fn(mem, smem, pagesize);
munmap:
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/guard-regions.c~selftests-mm-fix-force_read-to-read-input-value-correctly
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/guard-regions.c
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ static bool try_access_buf(char *ptr, bo
if (write)
*ptr = 'x';
else
- FORCE_READ(ptr);
+ FORCE_READ(*ptr);
}
signal_jump_set = false;
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugetlb-madvise.c~selftests-mm-fix-force_read-to-read-input-value-correctly
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugetlb-madvise.c
@@ -50,8 +50,10 @@ void read_fault_pages(void *addr, unsign
unsigned long i;
for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
+ unsigned long *addr2 =
+ ((unsigned long *)(addr + (i * huge_page_size)));
/* Prevent the compiler from optimizing out the entire loop: */
- FORCE_READ(((unsigned long *)(addr + (i * huge_page_size))));
+ FORCE_READ(*addr2);
}
}
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration.c~selftests-mm-fix-force_read-to-read-input-value-correctly
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ void *access_mem(void *ptr)
* the memory access actually happens and prevents the compiler
* from optimizing away this entire loop.
*/
- FORCE_READ((uint64_t *)ptr);
+ FORCE_READ(*(uint64_t *)ptr);
}
return NULL;
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/pagemap_ioctl.c~selftests-mm-fix-force_read-to-read-input-value-correctly
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/pagemap_ioctl.c
@@ -1525,7 +1525,7 @@ void zeropfn_tests(void)
ret = madvise(mem, hpage_size, MADV_HUGEPAGE);
if (!ret) {
- FORCE_READ(mem);
+ FORCE_READ(*mem);
ret = pagemap_ioctl(mem, hpage_size, &vec, 1, 0,
0, PAGE_IS_PFNZERO, 0, 0, PAGE_IS_PFNZERO);
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c~selftests-mm-fix-force_read-to-read-input-value-correctly
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
@@ -439,8 +439,11 @@ int create_pagecache_thp_and_fd(const ch
}
madvise(*addr, fd_size, MADV_HUGEPAGE);
- for (size_t i = 0; i < fd_size; i++)
- FORCE_READ((*addr + i));
+ for (size_t i = 0; i < fd_size; i++) {
+ char *addr2 = *addr + i;
+
+ FORCE_READ(*addr2);
+ }
if (!check_huge_file(*addr, fd_size / pmd_pagesize, pmd_pagesize)) {
ksft_print_msg("No large pagecache folio generated, please provide a filesystem supporting large folio\n");
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h~selftests-mm-fix-force_read-to-read-input-value-correctly
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
* anything with it in order to trigger a read page fault. We therefore must use
* volatile to stop the compiler from optimising this away.
*/
-#define FORCE_READ(x) (*(volatile typeof(x) *)x)
+#define FORCE_READ(x) (*(const volatile typeof(x) *)&(x))
extern unsigned int __page_size;
extern unsigned int __page_shift;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from ziy@nvidia.com are
mm-huge_memory-add-new_order-and-offset-to-split_huge_pages-pr_debug.patch
selftests-mm-mark-all-functions-static-in-split_huge_page_testc.patch
selftests-mm-reimplement-is_backed_by_thp-with-more-precise-check.patch
selftests-mm-reimplement-is_backed_by_thp-with-more-precise-check-fix.patch
selftests-mm-add-check_after_split_folio_orders-helper.patch
selftests-mm-check-after-split-folio-orders-in-split_huge_page_test.patch
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