From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@redhat.com, lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
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Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH v5 1/1] mm/rmap: fix soft-dirty and uffd-wp bit loss when remapping zero-filled mTHP subpage to shared zeropage
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:10:40 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250930081040.80926-1-lance.yang@linux.dev> (raw)
From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
When splitting an mTHP and replacing a zero-filled subpage with the shared
zeropage, try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage() currently drops several important
PTE bits.
For userspace tools like CRIU, which rely on the soft-dirty mechanism for
incremental snapshots, losing the soft-dirty bit means modified pages are
missed, leading to inconsistent memory state after restore.
As pointed out by David, the more critical uffd-wp bit is also dropped.
This breaks the userfaultfd write-protection mechanism, causing writes
to be silently missed by monitoring applications, which can lead to data
corruption.
Preserve both the soft-dirty and uffd-wp bits from the old PTE when
creating the new zeropage mapping to ensure they are correctly tracked.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: b1f202060afe ("mm: remap unused subpages to shared zeropage when splitting isolated thp")
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
---
v4 -> v5:
- Move ptep_get() call after the !pvmw.pte check, which handles PMD-mapped
THP migration entries.
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250930071053.36158-1-lance.yang@linux.dev/
v3 -> v4:
- Minor formatting tweak in try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage() function
signature (per David and Dev)
- Collect Reviewed-by from Dev - thanks!
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250930060557.85133-1-lance.yang@linux.dev/
v2 -> v3:
- ptep_get() gets called only once per iteration (per Dev)
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250930043351.34927-1-lance.yang@linux.dev/
v1 -> v2:
- Avoid calling ptep_get() multiple times (per Dev)
- Double-check the uffd-wp bit (per David)
- Collect Acked-by from David - thanks!
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250928044855.76359-1-lance.yang@linux.dev/
mm/migrate.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index ce83c2c3c287..e3065c9edb55 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -296,8 +296,7 @@ bool isolate_folio_to_list(struct folio *folio, struct list_head *list)
}
static bool try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
- struct folio *folio,
- unsigned long idx)
+ struct folio *folio, pte_t old_pte, unsigned long idx)
{
struct page *page = folio_page(folio, idx);
pte_t newpte;
@@ -306,7 +305,7 @@ static bool try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
return false;
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageAnon(page), page);
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
- VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(pte_present(ptep_get(pvmw->pte)), page);
+ VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(pte_present(old_pte), page);
if (folio_test_mlocked(folio) || (pvmw->vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) ||
mm_forbids_zeropage(pvmw->vma->vm_mm))
@@ -322,6 +321,12 @@ static bool try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
newpte = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(my_zero_pfn(pvmw->address),
pvmw->vma->vm_page_prot));
+
+ if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(old_pte))
+ newpte = pte_mksoft_dirty(newpte);
+ if (pte_swp_uffd_wp(old_pte))
+ newpte = pte_mkuffd_wp(newpte);
+
set_pte_at(pvmw->vma->vm_mm, pvmw->address, pvmw->pte, newpte);
dec_mm_counter(pvmw->vma->vm_mm, mm_counter(folio));
@@ -364,13 +369,13 @@ static bool remove_migration_pte(struct folio *folio,
continue;
}
#endif
+ old_pte = ptep_get(pvmw.pte);
if (rmap_walk_arg->map_unused_to_zeropage &&
- try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(&pvmw, folio, idx))
+ try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(&pvmw, folio, old_pte, idx))
continue;
folio_get(folio);
pte = mk_pte(new, READ_ONCE(vma->vm_page_prot));
- old_pte = ptep_get(pvmw.pte);
entry = pte_to_swp_entry(old_pte);
if (!is_migration_entry_young(entry))
--
2.49.0
next reply other threads:[~2025-09-30 8:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-30 8:10 Lance Yang [this message]
2025-09-30 15:00 ` [PATCH v5 1/1] mm/rmap: fix soft-dirty and uffd-wp bit loss when remapping zero-filled mTHP subpage to shared zeropage Zi Yan
2025-10-02 1:14 ` Harry Yoo
2025-10-02 16:10 ` Liam R. Howlett
2025-10-14 11:19 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-10-14 12:25 ` Lance Yang
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