From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,vega@nebusec.ai,stable@vger.kernel.org,liuye@kylinos.cn,enjou1224z@gmail.com,roxy520tt@gmail.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-stable] mm-page_table_check-skip-zero-pages.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:52:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261007005206.38CB41F008A3@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/page_table_check: skip zero pages
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-page_table_check-skip-zero-pages.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: Zhiling Zou <roxy520tt@gmail.com>
Subject: mm/page_table_check: skip zero pages
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:56:38 +0800
page_table_check_set() accounts pages by whether they are PageAnon(). The
shared zero page is a special page, not an ordinary file-backed page.
Read faults on private anonymous mappings can install many read-only PTEs
that point at the zero page, but page_table_check currently accounts them
in file_map_count.
That lets an unprivileged process populate enough zero-page mappings to
overflow file_map_count and trip the BUG_ON() in page_table_check_set().
Skip zero pages in page_table_check accounting. They do not need the
anonymous/file mapping conflict checks that page_table_check performs for
ordinary pages, and this keeps the existing counter size and page_ext
layout unchanged.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/1f8848512d2e3ded944f8d595c29faee8fdaeab0.1784645969.git.roxy520tt@gmail.com
Fixes: df4e817b7108 ("mm: page table check")
Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou <roxy520tt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <enjou1224z@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Vega <vega@nebusec.ai>
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.4
Cc: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
---
mm/page_table_check.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/page_table_check.c~mm-page_table_check-skip-zero-pages
+++ a/mm/page_table_check.c
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ static void page_table_check_clear(unsig
struct page *page;
bool anon;
- if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
+ if (!pfn_valid(pfn) || is_zero_pfn(pfn) || is_huge_zero_pfn(pfn))
return;
page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ static void page_table_check_set(unsigne
struct page *page;
bool anon;
- if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
+ if (!pfn_valid(pfn) || is_zero_pfn(pfn) || is_huge_zero_pfn(pfn))
return;
page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from roxy520tt@gmail.com are
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