From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,ziy@nvidia.com,willy@infradead.org,stable@vger.kernel.org,ryan.roberts@arm.com,npache@redhat.com,lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com,liam.howlett@oracle.com,hughd@google.com,dev.jain@arm.com,david@redhat.com,baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com,baohua@kernel.org,kasong@tencent.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: + mm-shmem-fix-thp-allocation-size-check-and-fallback.patch added to mm-hotfixes-unstable branch
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:17:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251021211718.BEF31C4CEF1@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The patch titled
Subject: mm/shmem: fix THP allocation size check and fallback
has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-shmem-fix-thp-allocation-size-check-and-fallback.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-shmem-fix-thp-allocation-size-check-and-fallback.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Subject: mm/shmem: fix THP allocation size check and fallback
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 03:04:36 +0800
There are some problems with the code implementations of THP fallback.
suitable_orders could be zero, and calling highest_order on a zero value
returns an overflowed size. And the order check loop is updating the
index value on every loop which may cause the index to be aligned by a
larger value while the loop shrinks the order. And it forgot to try order
0 after the final loop.
This is usually fine because shmem_add_to_page_cache ensures the shmem
mapping is still sane, but it might cause many potential issues like
allocating random folios into the random position in the map or return
-ENOMEM by accident. This triggered some strange userspace errors [1],
and shouldn't have happened in the first place.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251021190436.81682-1-ryncsn@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAMgjq7DqgAmj25nDUwwu1U2cSGSn8n4-Hqpgottedy0S6YYeUw@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Fixes: e7a2ab7b3bb5d ("mm: shmem: add mTHP support for anonymous shmem")
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/shmem.c | 26 +++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/shmem.c~mm-shmem-fix-thp-allocation-size-check-and-fallback
+++ a/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1824,6 +1824,9 @@ static unsigned long shmem_suitable_orde
unsigned long pages;
int order;
+ if (!orders)
+ return 0;
+
if (vma) {
orders = thp_vma_suitable_orders(vma, vmf->address, orders);
if (!orders)
@@ -1888,27 +1891,28 @@ static struct folio *shmem_alloc_and_add
if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE))
orders = 0;
- if (orders > 0) {
- suitable_orders = shmem_suitable_orders(inode, vmf,
- mapping, index, orders);
+ suitable_orders = shmem_suitable_orders(inode, vmf,
+ mapping, index, orders);
+ if (suitable_orders) {
order = highest_order(suitable_orders);
- while (suitable_orders) {
+ do {
pages = 1UL << order;
- index = round_down(index, pages);
- folio = shmem_alloc_folio(gfp, order, info, index);
- if (folio)
+ folio = shmem_alloc_folio(gfp, order, info, round_down(index, pages));
+ if (folio) {
+ index = round_down(index, pages);
goto allocated;
+ }
if (pages == HPAGE_PMD_NR)
count_vm_event(THP_FILE_FALLBACK);
count_mthp_stat(order, MTHP_STAT_SHMEM_FALLBACK);
order = next_order(&suitable_orders, order);
- }
- } else {
- pages = 1;
- folio = shmem_alloc_folio(gfp, 0, info, index);
+ } while (suitable_orders);
}
+
+ pages = 1;
+ folio = shmem_alloc_folio(gfp, 0, info, index);
if (!folio)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from kasong@tencent.com are
mm-shmem-fix-thp-allocation-size-check-and-fallback.patch
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