Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] mm/rmap: use huge_ptep_get() in try_to_unmap_one()

[Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>]

On 2026/7/2 13:13, Dev Jain wrote:
> try_to_unmap_one() handles hugetlb folios when memory failure needs
> to replace a poisoned hugetlb mapping with a hwpoison entry. In that
> case page_vma_mapped_walk() returns the pte pointer to the hugetlb folio
> in pvmw.pte, but the code reads it with ptep_get().
>
> 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.
>
> Just use huge_ptep_get() for dereferencing a huge pte pointer.
>
> Fixes: c7ab0d2fdc84 ("mm: convert try_to_unmap_one() to use page_vma_mapped_walk()")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Reported-by: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
> ---
>   include/linux/hugetlb.h |  3 +++
>   mm/rmap.c               | 16 ++++++++++------
>   2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> index 2abaf99321e90..fdb7bdf7645c5 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> @@ -1261,6 +1261,9 @@ static inline void hugetlb_count_sub(long l, struct mm_struct *mm)
>   {
>   }
>   
> +pte_t huge_ptep_get(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> +		    pte_t *ptep);
> +

Maybe I didn't express my thoughts clearly in the first version, let me
explain in more detail.

We should define this stub as a no-op for !CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE (like
set_huge_pte_at, that is why I mentioned 5d4af6195c87c6 for your reference
in your previous version). Currently, you've added a declaration, but the
function itself doesn't actually exist, which seems quite strange to me.

Muchun,
Thanks.
>   static inline pte_t huge_ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>   					  unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
>   {
> diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
> index 1c77d5dc06e9f..aa8a254efaecc 100644
> --- a/mm/rmap.c
> +++ b/mm/rmap.c
> @@ -2095,11 +2095,16 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>   		/* Unexpected PMD-mapped THP? */
>   		VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!pvmw.pte, folio);
>   
> -		/*
> -		 * Handle PFN swap PTEs, such as device-exclusive ones, that
> -		 * actually map pages.
> -		 */
> -		pteval = ptep_get(pvmw.pte);
> +		address = pvmw.address;
> +		if (folio_test_hugetlb(folio)) {
> +			pteval = huge_ptep_get(mm, address, pvmw.pte);
> +		} else {
> +			/*
> +			 * Handle PFN swap PTEs, such as device-exclusive ones,
> +			 * that actually map pages.
> +			 */
> +			pteval = ptep_get(pvmw.pte);
> +		}
>   		if (likely(pte_present(pteval))) {
>   			pfn = pte_pfn(pteval);
>   		} else {
> @@ -2110,7 +2115,6 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>   		}
>   
>   		subpage = folio_page(folio, pfn - folio_pfn(folio));
> -		address = pvmw.address;
>   		anon_exclusive = folio_test_anon(folio) &&
>   				 PageAnonExclusive(subpage);
>