From: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
npache@redhat.com, david@kernel.org, ziy@nvidia.com,
willy@infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: matthew.brost@intel.com, joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com,
hannes@cmpxchg.org, rakie.kim@sk.com, byungchul@sk.com,
gourry@gourry.net, ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com,
apopple@nvidia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-team@meta.com, Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: migrate: transfer large_rmappable flag in folio_migrate_flags()
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:23:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260311132342.3193160-1-usama.arif@linux.dev> (raw)
folio_migrate_flags() transfers folio state from source to destination
during migration, but does not transfer the large_rmappable flag.
Migration allocators like alloc_migration_target() and
alloc_misplaced_dst_folio() use __folio_alloc() directly without
wrapping the result in page_rmappable_folio(), so the destination folio
never gets large_rmappable set.
This becomes a problem when a folio on the deferred split queue is
migrated: the destination folio can be added to the deferred split queue
via deferred_split_folio() (which does not check large_rmappable), but
when the folio is later freed, folio_unqueue_deferred_split() bails out
early because large_rmappable is not set:
if (folio_order(folio) <= 1 || !folio_test_large_rmappable(folio))
return false;
This leaves a stale entry on the deferred split queue, leading to
use-after-free when the shrinker walks the list.
Fix this by transferring large_rmappable in folio_migrate_flags(),
consistent with how all other folio flags are handled.
Fixes: dafff3f4c850 ("mm: split underused THPs")
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
---
mm/migrate.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 3380021fd3db..ee1c7bc851dd 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -846,6 +846,9 @@ void folio_migrate_flags(struct folio *newfolio, struct folio *folio)
folio_copy_owner(newfolio, folio);
pgalloc_tag_swap(newfolio, folio);
+ if (folio_test_large_rmappable(folio))
+ folio_set_large_rmappable(newfolio);
+
mem_cgroup_migrate(folio, newfolio);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(folio_migrate_flags);
--
2.52.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-11 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-11 13:23 Usama Arif [this message]
2026-03-11 13:33 ` [PATCH] mm: migrate: transfer large_rmappable flag in folio_migrate_flags() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-03-11 13:38 ` Zi Yan
2026-03-11 13:57 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-03-11 14:24 ` Usama Arif
2026-03-11 14:28 ` Usama Arif
2026-03-11 14:34 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
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