From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,ziy@nvidia.com,ryan.roberts@arm.com,richard.weiyang@gmail.com,npache@redhat.com,lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com,liam.howlett@oracle.com,dev.jain@arm.com,david@redhat.com,baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com,lance.yang@linux.dev,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-stable] mm-khugepaged-guard-is_zero_pfn-calls-with-pte_present.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2025 17:32:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251117013246.69CF6C4AF09@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/khugepaged: guard is_zero_pfn() calls with pte_present()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-khugepaged-guard-is_zero_pfn-calls-with-pte_present.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
------------------------------------------------------
From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Subject: mm/khugepaged: guard is_zero_pfn() calls with pte_present()
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:11:11 +0800
A non-present entry, like a swap PTE, contains completely different data
(swap type and offset). pte_pfn() doesn't know this, so if we feed it a
non-present entry, it will spit out a junk PFN.
What if that junk PFN happens to match the zeropage's PFN by sheer chance?
While really unlikely, this would be really bad if it did.
So, let's fix this potential bug by ensuring all calls to is_zero_pfn() in
khugepaged.c are properly guarded by a pte_present() check.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251020151111.53561-1-lance.yang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Suggested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/khugepaged.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c~mm-khugepaged-guard-is_zero_pfn-calls-with-pte_present
+++ a/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -337,6 +337,13 @@ struct attribute_group khugepaged_attr_g
};
#endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
+static bool pte_none_or_zero(pte_t pte)
+{
+ if (pte_none(pte))
+ return true;
+ return pte_present(pte) && is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte));
+}
+
int hugepage_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
vm_flags_t *vm_flags, int advice)
{
@@ -518,6 +525,7 @@ static void release_pte_pages(pte_t *pte
if (pte_none(pteval))
continue;
+ VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!pte_present(pteval));
pfn = pte_pfn(pteval);
if (is_zero_pfn(pfn))
continue;
@@ -548,8 +556,7 @@ static int __collapse_huge_page_isolate(
for (_pte = pte; _pte < pte + HPAGE_PMD_NR;
_pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
pte_t pteval = ptep_get(_pte);
- if (pte_none(pteval) || (pte_present(pteval) &&
- is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pteval)))) {
+ if (pte_none_or_zero(pteval)) {
++none_or_zero;
if (!userfaultfd_armed(vma) &&
(!cc->is_khugepaged ||
@@ -690,17 +697,17 @@ static void __collapse_huge_page_copy_su
address += nr_ptes * PAGE_SIZE) {
nr_ptes = 1;
pteval = ptep_get(_pte);
- if (pte_none(pteval) || is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pteval))) {
+ if (pte_none_or_zero(pteval)) {
add_mm_counter(vma->vm_mm, MM_ANONPAGES, 1);
- if (is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pteval))) {
- /*
- * ptl mostly unnecessary.
- */
- spin_lock(ptl);
- ptep_clear(vma->vm_mm, address, _pte);
- spin_unlock(ptl);
- ksm_might_unmap_zero_page(vma->vm_mm, pteval);
- }
+ if (pte_none(pteval))
+ continue;
+ /*
+ * ptl mostly unnecessary.
+ */
+ spin_lock(ptl);
+ ptep_clear(vma->vm_mm, address, _pte);
+ spin_unlock(ptl);
+ ksm_might_unmap_zero_page(vma->vm_mm, pteval);
} else {
struct page *src_page = pte_page(pteval);
@@ -794,7 +801,7 @@ static int __collapse_huge_page_copy(pte
unsigned long src_addr = address + i * PAGE_SIZE;
struct page *src_page;
- if (pte_none(pteval) || is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pteval))) {
+ if (pte_none_or_zero(pteval)) {
clear_user_highpage(page, src_addr);
continue;
}
@@ -1301,7 +1308,7 @@ static int hpage_collapse_scan_pmd(struc
goto out_unmap;
}
}
- if (pte_none(pteval) || is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pteval))) {
+ if (pte_none_or_zero(pteval)) {
++none_or_zero;
if (!userfaultfd_armed(vma) &&
(!cc->is_khugepaged ||
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from lance.yang@linux.dev are
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