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 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 Wed Nov 4, 2026 at 3:40 PM EST, Konstantin Khorenko wrote: > copy_huge_pmd() reads a special PMD without the page table lock and > copies that value to the child. The mmap write lock held by fork does > not stop unmap_mapping_range(): it zaps under i_mmap_rwsem and the PMD > lock. > > The zap visits the parent VMA before the child's, as dup_mmap() links > the child right after the parent in i_mmap. If it clears the parent PMD > after fork has read it, and passes the child before fork copies it, the > child keeps a mapping the driver has revoked, for example: > > - vfio-pci: the child reaches the BAR after the device memory was > disabled or the device was reset, instead of getting SIGBUS; > - panthor: the child maps the pages of an evicted buffer object after > the driver has released them. > > The same branch deposits no page table under the copy. ppc64 in hash > mode keeps the hash slot array of every huge PMD in that table, so the > child dereferences a NULL table on the first hash fault, in > __hash_page_thp(), and on the zap, in hash__pmdp_huge_get_and_clear(). > > Take the locks first and let vm_normal_page_pmd() tell a PFN mapping > from a folio under them, as copy_present_ptes() does with > vm_normal_page(). The zap clears the parent PMD under the same lock, so > either fork finds it none and skips it, or the copy is in place before > the zap reaches the child. > > The copy of a PFN mapping then goes through the same tail as a folio: > > - it gets a page table where the architecture needs one; > - in a shared mapping it is marked clean in the child, as a PTE is; > - in a CoW mapping, which only VM_MIXEDMAP allows, both sides are write > protected instead of a warning being printed. > > Fixes: bc02afbd4d73 ("mm/fork: accept huge pfnmap entries") > Fixes: d1503aa9ab80 ("powerpc/64s: Add support for huge pfnmaps") > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > Reported-by: Sashiko > Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20261014-b4-prep-vstor-149847-copy= _huge_pmd-recheck-special-pmd-v1-1-d225c60bc316@virtuozzo.com?part=3D1 > Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) > Acked-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) > Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) > Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khorenko > --- > mm/huge_memory.c | 24 +++--------------------- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) > Makes sense. Acked-by: Zi Yan --=20 Best Regards, Yan, Zi