[merged mm-stable] kfence-drop-nth_page-usage.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] kfence-drop-nth_page-usage.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: kfence: drop nth_page() usage
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     kfence-drop-nth_page-usage.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Subject: kfence: drop nth_page() usage
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 17:03:56 +0200

We want to get rid of nth_page(), and kfence init code is the last user.

Unfortunately, we might actually walk a PFN range where the pages are not
contiguous, because we might be allocating an area from memblock that
could span memory sections in problematic kernel configs (SPARSEMEM
without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP).

We could check whether the page range is contiguous using
page_range_contiguous() and failing kfence init, or making kfence
incompatible these problemtic kernel configs.

Let's keep it simple and simply use pfn_to_page() by iterating PFNs.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-36-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/kfence/core.c |   12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/kfence/core.c~kfence-drop-nth_page-usage
+++ a/mm/kfence/core.c
@@ -594,15 +594,14 @@ static void rcu_guarded_free(struct rcu_
  */
 static unsigned long kfence_init_pool(void)
 {
-	unsigned long addr;
-	struct page *pages;
+	unsigned long addr, start_pfn;
 	int i;
 
 	if (!arch_kfence_init_pool())
 		return (unsigned long)__kfence_pool;
 
 	addr = (unsigned long)__kfence_pool;
-	pages = virt_to_page(__kfence_pool);
+	start_pfn = PHYS_PFN(virt_to_phys(__kfence_pool));
 
 	/*
 	 * Set up object pages: they must have PGTY_slab set to avoid freeing
@@ -613,11 +612,12 @@ static unsigned long kfence_init_pool(vo
 	 * enters __slab_free() slow-path.
 	 */
 	for (i = 0; i < KFENCE_POOL_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE; i++) {
-		struct slab *slab = page_slab(nth_page(pages, i));
+		struct slab *slab;
 
 		if (!i || (i % 2))
 			continue;
 
+		slab = page_slab(pfn_to_page(start_pfn + i));
 		__folio_set_slab(slab_folio(slab));
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
 		slab->obj_exts = (unsigned long)&kfence_metadata_init[i / 2 - 1].obj_exts |
@@ -665,10 +665,12 @@ static unsigned long kfence_init_pool(vo
 
 reset_slab:
 	for (i = 0; i < KFENCE_POOL_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE; i++) {
-		struct slab *slab = page_slab(nth_page(pages, i));
+		struct slab *slab;
 
 		if (!i || (i % 2))
 			continue;
+
+		slab = page_slab(pfn_to_page(start_pfn + i));
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
 		slab->obj_exts = 0;
 #endif
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from david@redhat.com are