From: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>, Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm/huge_memory: prevent NULL pointer dereference in try_folio_split_to_order()
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:59:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251120035953.1115736-2-ziy@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251120035953.1115736-1-ziy@nvidia.com>
folio_split_supported() used in try_folio_split_to_order() requires
folio->mapping to be non NULL, but current try_folio_split_to_order() does
not check it. Add the check to prevent NULL pointer dereference.
There is no issue in the current code, since try_folio_split_to_order() is
only used in truncate_inode_partial_folio(), where folio->mapping is not
NULL.
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
---
include/linux/huge_mm.h | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
index 1d439de1ca2c..0d55354e3a34 100644
--- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
@@ -407,6 +407,13 @@ static inline int split_huge_page_to_order(struct page *page, unsigned int new_o
static inline int try_folio_split_to_order(struct folio *folio,
struct page *page, unsigned int new_order)
{
+ /*
+ * Folios that just got truncated cannot get split. Signal to the
+ * caller that there was a race.
+ */
+ if (!folio_test_anon(folio) && !folio->mapping)
+ return -EBUSY;
+
if (!folio_split_supported(folio, new_order, SPLIT_TYPE_NON_UNIFORM, /* warns= */ false))
return split_huge_page_to_order(&folio->page, new_order);
return folio_split(folio, new_order, page, NULL);
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-20 4:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-20 3:59 [RFC PATCH 0/3] folio->mapping == NULL check issue Zi Yan
2025-11-20 3:59 ` Zi Yan [this message]
2025-11-20 4:28 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm/huge_memory: prevent NULL pointer dereference in try_folio_split_to_order() Balbir Singh
2025-11-20 14:45 ` Zi Yan
2025-11-20 9:25 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-20 14:41 ` Zi Yan
2025-11-20 19:56 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-21 16:41 ` Zi Yan
2025-11-21 17:09 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-21 17:24 ` Zi Yan
2025-11-20 3:59 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] mm/huge_memory: add kernel-doc for folio_split_supported() Zi Yan
2025-11-20 4:37 ` Balbir Singh
2025-11-20 9:27 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-20 14:48 ` Zi Yan
2025-11-20 20:01 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-20 3:59 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm/memory-failure: handle min_order_for_split() error code properly Zi Yan
2025-11-20 4:45 ` Balbir Singh
2025-11-20 15:00 ` Zi Yan
2025-11-20 9:37 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-20 14:59 ` Zi Yan
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