+ powerpc-mm-map-shared-vmemmap-tail-pages-as-read-only.patch added to mm-new branch

+ powerpc-mm-map-shared-vmemmap-tail-pages-as-read-only.patch added to mm-new branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: powerpc/mm: map shared vmemmap tail pages as read-only
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     powerpc-mm-map-shared-vmemmap-tail-pages-as-read-only.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/powerpc-mm-map-shared-vmemmap-tail-pages-as-read-only.patch

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    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Subject: powerpc/mm: map shared vmemmap tail pages as read-only
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:08:28 +0800

PowerPC radix uses an architecture-specific vmemmap population path for
shared tail mappings, so it does not inherit the read-only protection added
to the common path.

Protect these mappings as well so illegal writes fault instead of
corrupting metadata shared by multiple tail pages.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20261019090830.1917657-3-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <chleroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
---

 arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c~powerpc-mm-map-shared-vmemmap-tail-pages-as-read-only
+++ a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c
@@ -1059,6 +1059,9 @@ static pte_t * __meminit radix__vmemmap_
 
 		VM_BUG_ON(!PAGE_ALIGNED(addr));
 		entry = pfn_pte(__pa(p) >> PAGE_SHIFT, PAGE_KERNEL);
+		/* Map the shared tail page as read-only to catch illegal writes. */
+		if (reuse)
+			entry = pte_wrprotect(entry);
 		set_pte_at(&init_mm, addr, pte, entry);
 		asm volatile("ptesync": : :"memory");
 	}
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from muchun.song@linux.dev are

riscv-mm-fix-hotplug-page-table-destructor-handling.patch
riscv-mm-fix-missing-destructor-for-hotplug-pud-tables.patch
mm-fix-missing-page-table-destructor-in-pagetable_free.patch
arm64-mm-fix-destructor-for-unconstructed-hotplug-page-tables.patch
mm-sparse-vmemmap-map-shared-vmemmap-tail-pages-as-read-only.patch
powerpc-mm-map-shared-vmemmap-tail-pages-as-read-only.patch
mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-remove-vmemmap_wrprotect_hvo.patch
mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-remove-hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_bootmem_folios.patch