From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
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Subject: [PATCH 6.12.y 1/1] mm/rmap: fix soft-dirty and uffd-wp bit loss when remapping zero-filled mTHP subpage to shared zeropage
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:51:06 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251017085106.16330-1-lance.yang@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2025101627-shortage-author-7f5b@gregkh>
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.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250930081040.80926-1-lance.yang@linux.dev
Fixes: b1f202060afe ("mm: remap unused subpages to shared zeropage when splitting isolated thp")
Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
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>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 9658d698a8a83540bf6a6c80d13c9a61590ee985)
---
mm/migrate.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 8619aa884eaa..603330ad8e0b 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -198,8 +198,7 @@ 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);
bool contains_data;
@@ -210,7 +209,7 @@ 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(*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))
@@ -230,6 +229,12 @@ 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));
@@ -272,13 +277,13 @@ 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 prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-17 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-16 13:22 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/rmap: fix soft-dirty and uffd-wp bit loss when remapping" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree gregkh
2025-10-17 8:51 ` Lance Yang [this message]
2025-10-17 9:52 ` [PATCH 6.12.y 1/1] mm/rmap: fix soft-dirty and uffd-wp bit loss when remapping zero-filled mTHP subpage to shared zeropage Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-10-17 10:25 ` Lance Yang
2025-10-17 11:12 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-10-17 11:14 ` Lance Yang
2025-10-17 11:26 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
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