FAILED: Patch "mm/page_alloc: clear page->private in free_pages_prepare()" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree

FAILED: Patch "mm/page_alloc: clear page->private in free_pages_prepare()" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree

[Sasha Levin]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.6-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

Thanks,
Sasha

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From ac1ea219590c09572ed5992dc233bbf7bb70fef9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2026 22:36:14 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: clear page->private in free_pages_prepare()

Several subsystems (slub, shmem, ttm, etc.) use page->private but don't
clear it before freeing pages.  When these pages are later allocated as
high-order pages and split via split_page(), tail pages retain stale
page->private values.

This causes a use-after-free in the swap subsystem.  The swap code uses
page->private to track swap count continuations, assuming freshly
allocated pages have page->private == 0.  When stale values are present,
swap_count_continued() incorrectly assumes the continuation list is valid
and iterates over uninitialized page->lru containing LIST_POISON values,
causing a crash:

  KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0xdead000000000100-0xdead000000000107]
  RIP: 0010:__do_sys_swapoff+0x1151/0x1860

Fix this by clearing page->private in free_pages_prepare(), ensuring all
freed pages have clean state regardless of previous use.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260207173615.146159-1-mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com
Fixes: 3b8000ae185c ("mm/vmalloc: huge vmalloc backing pages should be split rather than compound")
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index e4104973e22fd..77dcec36946f0 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1429,6 +1429,7 @@ __always_inline bool free_pages_prepare(struct page *page,
 
 	page_cpupid_reset_last(page);
 	page->flags.f &= ~PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP;
+	page->private = 0;
 	reset_page_owner(page, order);
 	page_table_check_free(page, order);
 	pgalloc_tag_sub(page, 1 << order);
-- 
2.51.0

[PATCH] mm/page_alloc: clear page->private in free_pages_prepare()

[Li Wang]

From: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com>

[commit ac1ea219590c09572ed5992dc233bbf7bb70fef9 upstream]

Several subsystems (slub, shmem, ttm, etc.) use page->private but don't
clear it before freeing pages.  When these pages are later allocated as
high-order pages and split via split_page(), tail pages retain stale
page->private values.

This causes a use-after-free in the swap subsystem.  The swap code uses
page->private to track swap count continuations, assuming freshly
allocated pages have page->private == 0.  When stale values are present,
swap_count_continued() incorrectly assumes the continuation list is valid
and iterates over uninitialized page->lru containing LIST_POISON values,
causing a crash:

  KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0xdead000000000100-0xdead000000000107]
  RIP: 0010:__do_sys_swapoff+0x1151/0x1860

Fix this by clearing page->private in free_pages_prepare(), ensuring all
freed pages have clean state regardless of previous use.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260207173615.146159-1-mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com
Fixes: 3b8000ae185c ("mm/vmalloc: huge vmalloc backing pages should be split rather than compound")
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[backport: context only]
Signed-off-by: Li Wang <li.wang@windriver.com>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index b617fb364b15..ffdc71103c2a 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1178,6 +1178,7 @@ static __always_inline bool free_pages_prepare(struct page *page,
 
 	page_cpupid_reset_last(page);
 	page->flags &= ~PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP;
+	page->private = 0;
 	reset_page_owner(page, order);
 	page_table_check_free(page, order);
 
-- 
2.34.1

Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: clear page->private in free_pages_prepare()

[Brendan Jackman]

On Fri May 29, 2026 at 5:02 AM UTC, Li Wang wrote:
> From: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com>
>
> [commit ac1ea219590c09572ed5992dc233bbf7bb70fef9 upstream]

Thanks Li!

Sasha, this version also applies to 6.12, can we apply it there too?