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* [RFC PATCH] mm: filemap: fix nr_pages calculation overflow in filemap_map_pages()
@ 2026-03-13  3:45 Baolin Wang
  2026-03-13  5:11 ` Dev Jain
  2026-03-16 14:06 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Baolin Wang @ 2026-03-13  3:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm, willy
  Cc: david, lorenzo.stoakes, kas, p.raghav, mcgrof, dhowells, djwong,
	hare, da.gomez, dchinner, brauner, baolin.wang, xiangzao,
	linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, linux-kernel

When running stress-ng on my Arm64 machine with v7.0-rc3 kernel, I encountered
some very strange crash issues showing up as "Bad page state":

"
[  734.496287] BUG: Bad page state in process stress-ng-env  pfn:415735fb
[  734.496427] page: refcount:0 mapcount:1 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x4cf316 pfn:0x415735fb
[  734.496434] flags: 0x57fffe000000800(owner_2|node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x3ffff)
[  734.496439] raw: 057fffe000000800 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
[  734.496440] raw: 00000000004cf316 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
[  734.496442] page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
"

After analyzing this page’s state, it is hard to understand why the mapcount
is not 0 while the refcount is 0, since this page is not where the issue first
occurred. By enabling the CONFIG_DEBUG_VM config, I can reproduce the crash as
well and captured the first warning where the issue appears:

"
[  734.469226] page: refcount:33 mapcount:0 mapping:00000000bef2d187 index:0x81a0 pfn:0x415735c0
[  734.469304] head: order:5 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
[  734.469315] memcg:ffff000807a8ec00
[  734.469320] aops:ext4_da_aops ino:100b6f dentry name(?):"stress-ng-mmaptorture-9397-0-2736200540"
[  734.469335] flags: 0x57fffe400000069(locked|uptodate|lru|head|node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x3ffff)
......
[  734.469364] page dumped because: VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO((_Generic((page + nr_pages - 1),
const struct page *: (const struct folio *)_compound_head(page + nr_pages - 1), struct page *:
(struct folio *)_compound_head(page + nr_pages - 1))) != folio)
[  734.469390] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  734.469393] WARNING: ./include/linux/rmap.h:351 at folio_add_file_rmap_ptes+0x3b8/0x468,
CPU#90: stress-ng-mlock/9430
[  734.469551]  folio_add_file_rmap_ptes+0x3b8/0x468 (P)
[  734.469555]  set_pte_range+0xd8/0x2f8
[  734.469566]  filemap_map_folio_range+0x190/0x400
[  734.469579]  filemap_map_pages+0x348/0x638
[  734.469583]  do_fault_around+0x140/0x198
......
[  734.469640]  el0t_64_sync+0x184/0x188
"

The code that triggers the warning is: "VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO(page_folio(page + nr_pages - 1) != folio, folio)",
which indicates that set_pte_range() tried to map beyond the large folio’s
size.

By adding more debug information, I found that 'nr_pages' had overflowed in
filemap_map_pages(), causing set_pte_range() to establish mappings for a range
exceeding the folio size, potentially corrupting fields of pages that do not
belong to this folio (e.g., page->_mapcount).

After above analysis, I think the possible race is as follows:

CPU 0                                                  CPU 1
filemap_map_pages()                                   ext4_setattr()
   //get and lock folio with old inode->i_size
   next_uptodate_folio()

                                                          .......
                                                          //shrink the inode->i_size
                                                          i_size_write(inode, attr->ia_size);

   //calculate the end_pgoff with the new inode->i_size
   file_end = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(mapping->host), PAGE_SIZE) - 1;
   end_pgoff = min(end_pgoff, file_end);

   ......
   //nr_pages can be overflowed, cause xas.xa_index > end_pgoff
   end = folio_next_index(folio) - 1;
   nr_pages = min(end, end_pgoff) - xas.xa_index + 1;

   ......
   //map large folio
   filemap_map_folio_range()
                                                          ......
                                                          //truncate folios
                                                          truncate_pagecache(inode, inode->i_size);

To fix this issue, move the 'end_pgoff' calculation before next_uptodate_folio(),
so the retrieved folio stays consistent with the file end to avoid 'nr_pages'
calculation overflow. After this patch, the crash issue is gone.

Fixes: 743a2753a02e ("filemap: cap PTE range to be created to allowed zero fill in folio_map_range()")
Reported-by: Yuanhe Shu <xiangzao@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Yuanhe Shu <xiangzao@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
---
 mm/filemap.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index bc6775084744..923d28e59642 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -3879,14 +3879,14 @@ vm_fault_t filemap_map_pages(struct vm_fault *vmf,
 	unsigned int nr_pages = 0, folio_type;
 	unsigned short mmap_miss = 0, mmap_miss_saved;
 
+	file_end = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(mapping->host), PAGE_SIZE) - 1;
+	end_pgoff = min(end_pgoff, file_end);
+
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	folio = next_uptodate_folio(&xas, mapping, end_pgoff);
 	if (!folio)
 		goto out;
 
-	file_end = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(mapping->host), PAGE_SIZE) - 1;
-	end_pgoff = min(end_pgoff, file_end);
-
 	/*
 	 * Do not allow to map with PMD across i_size to preserve
 	 * SIGBUS semantics.
-- 
2.47.3



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