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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Server: rspam05 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 993DC140006 X-Stat-Signature: ogs7mraq414pexzy6mp1tkzy81y9qu3b X-Rspam-User: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-12.6 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=4.0.1 X-HE-Tag: 1793103255-979338 X-HE-Meta: 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 GqYm2WwH A9BTQw+fIqh2Cm/x/ECe9WLvZDAbTYRDct1BN+Gc6iV45fIznjiI++qei/eKgY/w9JJBZj0yOsBcr/541/NTzS75ZXMCPS+yDiQjAAD8i8loWv+wr5di1JDFd41aikeshNw16CNiMcDtMUq09BM/6+VlFlloKIa1OY4nvOTWGlNIQ6mquxL162OvyBN5uXYY+lOQdM9YfGKfQYWU6vkLLkjeL12BeIsosvL69xed6Y74uCJeeMMjP844br++NOdd5fRKqnhlYpavKi2aX6R++XKyIcze/MLC5Jk1BsZpn5UR4lgn46jsPL2p4GhPW6Xdkfnv19dHluO1wxIKgKs7OleqGq3GjRhykRLgL96PCNgTblnjHi3Vh/Ihtka+TelFWmMKE Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.1 (2024-03-26) on aws-us-west-2-korg-listserv-alma10-1 On 10/27/26 13:11, Kiryl Shutsemau wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 09:00:54PM +0800, Lance Yang wrote: >> KSM loses userfaultfd protection when replace_page() builds a new PTE >> from vma->vm_page_prot. Dropping its uffd bit lets a subsequent write go >> through ordinary COW instead of userfaultfd write protection handling. For >> RWP, a merged page also becomes readable without faulting. >> >> Keeping the uffd bit and restoring PAGE_NONE fixes merging, but we also >> have to handle unmerging. An existing KSM page can be protected with RWP >> before MADV_UNMERGEABLE, so unmerging already needs fixing independently >> of preserving RWP during merging. >> >> Unsharing replaces a shared page with a private one and should leave >> userfaultfd protection in place, as do_wp_page() already does for write >> protection. Currently, an unshare fault reaches do_uffd_rwp() before it >> can proceed to do_wp_page(). >> >> - With synchronous RWP, handle_userfault() returns VM_FAULT_SIGBUS. >> break_ksm() then reports success with a KSM page still merged. >> >> - With asynchronous RWP, protection is cleared before unsharing. >> >> Preserve the uffd bit when merging, and restore PAGE_NONE for RWP. Let >> FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE skip RWP fault handling and keep PAGE_NONE on each >> private copy as well. Unsharing can then complete with RWP still armed >> for a subsequent access. >> >> Fixes: 63b2d4174c4a ("userfaultfd: wp: add the writeprotect API to userfaultfd ioctl") >> Fixes: 2d427bb01639 ("mm/userfaultfd: add RWP fault delivery and expose UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_RWP") >> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261019010934.697895-1-samarth.colleges@gmail.com/ >> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261020055518.36087-1-lance.yang@linux.dev/ >> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org >> Co-developed-by: Samarth Narang >> Signed-off-by: Samarth Narang >> Signed-off-by: Lance Yang > > Thanks for fixing this: > > Reviewed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) > >> @@ -1463,9 +1464,14 @@ 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. */ >> + /* Preserve soft-dirty and uffd protection when replacing the page. */ > > Small nit: the period at the end of a single-line comment looks odd to > me. Am I the only one? I think you are. :) I would complain if something looks like a sentence but doesn't end with a period. It would be different it it's not actually a full sentence. /* preserve soft-dirty */ -- Cheers, David