From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.15.y 2/2] mm/page_vma_mapped: use huge_ptep_get() for hugetlb
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2026 14:35:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260904183502.1323253-2-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260904183502.1323253-1-sashal@kernel.org>
From: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
[ Upstream commit e87df0d5d6962bde50f55f6d02b779daa394f894 ]
check_pte() is the final validation step in page_vma_mapped_walk(). It
reads pvmw->pte with ptep_get() to decide whether the entry maps the PFN
range being walked. For hugetlb VMAs, that pointer refers to a hugetlb
entry.
On arches which provide their own huge_ptep_get() to dereference a huge
pte pointer, accessing via ptep_get() would cause pte_pfn(), pte_present()
etc to misbehave.
It is not clear whether this has a trivially visible effect to userspace.
Use huge_ptep_get() to dereference a huge pte pointer.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260703114202.365553-6-dev.jain@arm.com
Fixes: ace71a19cec5 ("mm: introduce page_vma_mapped_walk()")
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Jun'ichi "Nick" Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
mm/page_vma_mapped.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_vma_mapped.c b/mm/page_vma_mapped.c
index 3f003623eef45..e07f4b80d44b1 100644
--- a/mm/page_vma_mapped.c
+++ b/mm/page_vma_mapped.c
@@ -87,7 +87,13 @@ static inline bool pfn_is_match(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn)
static bool check_pte(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
{
unsigned long pfn;
- pte_t ptent = ptep_get(pvmw->pte);
+ pte_t ptent;
+
+ if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(pvmw->vma))
+ ptent = huge_ptep_get(pvmw->vma->vm_mm, pvmw->address,
+ pvmw->pte);
+ else
+ ptent = ptep_get(pvmw->pte);
if (pvmw->flags & PVMW_MIGRATION) {
swp_entry_t entry;
--
2.53.0
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2026-09-03 10:49 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/page_vma_mapped: use huge_ptep_get() for hugetlb" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree gregkh
2026-09-04 18:35 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 1/2] mm: provide mm_struct and address to huge_ptep_get() Sasha Levin
2026-09-04 18:35 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
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