FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/ksm: keep soft-dirty when merging a page" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 2efc6332f18bfd848f74f3d5ba45b31450601faa
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '20261109201702-failed-6.1-2efc6332f18b@kernel.org' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' 'HEAD^..'

Thanks,
Sasha

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 2efc6332f18bfd848f74f3d5ba45b31450601faa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samarth Narang <samarth.colleges@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:21:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] mm/ksm: keep soft-dirty when merging a page

replace_page() maps the KSM page with a PTE built from scratch, so the
soft-dirty bit of the PTE it replaces is lost.  A page written since
"clear_refs 4" then no longer shows as soft-dirty once it is merged, and a
soft-dirty based dumper treats it as unchanged.

Copy the soft-dirty bit from the original PTE to the new PTE.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20261021182157.1873726-1-samarth.colleges@gmail.com
Fixes: 0f8975ec4db2 ("mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking")
Signed-off-by: Samarth Narang <samarth.colleges@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: LLM
Cc: Xu Xin <xu.xin@linux.dev>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
---
 mm/ksm.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index dbfb8f98b1892..910a1307ac9f3 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -1463,6 +1463,10 @@ static int replace_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page,
 		dec_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES);
 	}
 
+	/* Preserve soft-dirty when replacing the page. */
+	if (pte_soft_dirty(orig_pte))
+		newpte = pte_mksoft_dirty(newpte);
+
 	flush_cache_page(vma, addr, pte_pfn(ptep_get(ptep)));
 	/*
 	 * No need to notify as we are replacing a read only page with another
-- 
2.53.0