* [PATCH v2] mm/huge_memory: set PG_has_hwpoisoned only after new folio head is established
@ 2026-07-01 17:42 Rik van Riel
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From: Rik van Riel @ 2026-07-01 17:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Cc: kernel-team, linux-mm, akpm, david, ljs, ziy, baolin.wang, liam,
npache, ryan.roberts, dev.jain, baohua, lance.yang, yang,
Rik van Riel, stable
__split_folio_to_order() copies the hwpoison state onto each new
sub-folio while splitting a folio to a non-zero order. It does so via
if (handle_hwpoison && page_range_has_hwpoisoned(new_head, new_nr_pages))
folio_set_has_hwpoisoned(new_folio);
*before* clear_compound_head(new_head)/prep_compound_page(new_head, ...)
turns @new_head from a tail page into a proper folio head.
PG_has_hwpoisoned is a FOLIO_SECOND_PAGE flag, so folio_set_has_hwpoisoned()
resolves to folio_flags(folio, 1). With the new compound_info-based
page-flags layout, folio_flags() asserts the page is not a tail:
VM_BUG_ON_PGFLAGS(page->compound_info & 1, page);
VM_BUG_ON_PGFLAGS(n > 0 && !test_bit(PG_head, &page->flags.f), page);
At the current call site @new_head still has the tail marker
(compound_info bit 0 set, PG_head clear), so on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM kernels
this hits:
kernel BUG at include/linux/page-flags.h:354
folio_flags+0x82
folio_set_has_hwpoisoned
__split_folio_to_order
__split_unmapped_folio
__folio_split
truncate_inode_partial_folio (shmem hole-punch / MADV_REMOVE)
Reproduced by syzkaller: hwpoison-inject a few subpages of a large shmem
folio, then MADV_REMOVE (fallocate punch hole) on the same range, which
splits the partial folio to a non-zero order.
memory_failure() tries to split the poisoned folio to order 0 first, but
that split is best-effort; when it fails the folio is left large with
PG_has_hwpoisoned set, the case fa5a06170036 added this hwpoison copying
for.
Move the folio_set_has_hwpoisoned() call to after
clear_compound_head()/prep_compound_page(), where @new_folio is a real
order-new_order head folio (handle_hwpoison implies new_order != 0, so a
second page always exists). The flag still lands on the same struct page
(page[1] of the new folio); only the ordering relative to compound-head
setup changes, satisfying the FOLIO_SECOND_PAGE precondition.
Fixes: fa5a06170036 ("mm/huge_memory: preserve PG_has_hwpoisoned if a folio is split to >0 order")
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
v2:
- cleaned up comment (Lorenzo)
- consistent changelog grammar, plus rationale on why this path exists (David)
- Cc: stable (Zi)
mm/huge_memory.c | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 2bccb0a53a0a..b5d1e9d4463d 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -3587,10 +3587,6 @@ static void __split_folio_to_order(struct folio *folio, int old_order,
(1L << PG_dropbehind) |
LRU_GEN_MASK | LRU_REFS_MASK));
- if (handle_hwpoison &&
- page_range_has_hwpoisoned(new_head, new_nr_pages))
- folio_set_has_hwpoisoned(new_folio);
-
new_folio->mapping = folio->mapping;
new_folio->index = folio->index + i;
@@ -3612,6 +3608,14 @@ static void __split_folio_to_order(struct folio *folio, int old_order,
folio_set_large_rmappable(new_folio);
}
+ /*
+ * PG_has_hwpoisoned is on the 2nd page, so set it after
+ * the compound head is prepped.
+ */
+ if (handle_hwpoison &&
+ page_range_has_hwpoisoned(new_head, new_nr_pages))
+ folio_set_has_hwpoisoned(new_folio);
+
if (folio_test_young(folio))
folio_set_young(new_folio);
if (folio_test_idle(folio))
--
2.53.0-Meta
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